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Please ID radio - vecher - 07-28-2017
No marking on it at all.. Except plaque on top..
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Tube line up..
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Plaque on top...
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RE: Please ID radio - 462ron - 07-29-2017
No expert here but it looks like a home made job, especially that grille work looks like it's from an old radiator enclosure!
Ron
RE: Please ID radio - OldRestorer - 07-29-2017
I don't know but I will research it when I get home.
RE: Please ID radio - WallaceRoger - 07-29-2017
Pretty cool. An inexpensive radio made for hotels to place in their rooms, before TVs became common and cheap enough.
There's another one listed on ebay with the same brass plaque, but different cabinet. Still with the rough finish and the grille that looks like it was taken from a radiator cover
These were originally coin-op jobs sold by the Radio-Matic corp (formerly of Newark, NJ). Apparently, they were designed and built by GE.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-UQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA148&dq=radio+matic+end+table&hl=en&ei=67GWTN2EFoi4sQOVz_S_Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=radio%20matic%20end%20table&f=false
RE: Please ID radio - WallaceRoger - 07-30-2017
Here also is an October 1946 Popular Science article about the radios
https://books.google.com/books?id=YCEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=GE+Radio-Matic&source=bl&ots=NRhWrh4H0s&sig=D05Mn8QWK0lf1-9SBnw2hu3eapI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwils76QobHVAhWa2YMKHc7lAKg4ChDoAQg3MAM#v=onepage&q=GE%20Radio-Matic&f=false
RE: Please ID radio - Scott D - 08-20-2017
Where's the coin slot? The motel probably went bankrupt giving their costumer "free-radio"!