The PHILCO Phorum

I just finished this very rare Northland radio.

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The story and restoration details along with some videos of it in service are on my blog.

http://www.russoldradios.com/blog

 That's a vey good looking radio.
Your restoration thread was very interesting and informative...
  I really liked your work around of the pot metal problem with the tuner.
 Great job.

Great looking piece! Very original.

Thanks. I almost gave up on it.

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Russ, I posted some info (in the comments section) on the fellow who signed the chassis, Walter Albert Spivak, on your blog page.  It turns out he became the Chief Engineer for North American and was involved with production of the XB-70 bomber (and probably quite a few other things.)  In 1928-29 he was at the University of Minnesota and in August was probably working a summer job at the Northland radio plant in Minneapolis.  

That is SO COOL Bob!

I moved your comment out to the body of the post so that nobody would miss it.

I did not really think Walter would be identified.

Yes, it was fun tracking him down too.