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Story about Philco cabinet manufacturing
#1

I work with the author of this story. The stories are straight from the owner of the factory.

http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_24483618/j...y-was-more
#2

Thanks for sharing that link. It would be great to see some pics of the radio cabinet "assembly line".

Craig R.
#3

What a wonderful post. So much nice history there.
Jerry

A friend in need is a pest!  Bill Slee ca 1970.
#4

Quote:It would be great to see some pics of the radio cabinet "assembly line".

Ask and ye shall receive.

[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...cab02s.jpg]

[Image: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z309/...dlion4.jpg]

Highboy?
#5

Ask and yee shall receive! That is so coooool! Thanks for that historic pic.

Craig R.
#6

Philco did have it's own cabinet plant in Philadelphia though, but they did contract out when they could not meet production by themselves. Atwater Kent relied on Pooley and Red Lion to make all of their cabinets, they had large amounts of sheet metal stamping equipment but no cabinet shop.
Regards
Arran
#7

That was interesting to read. My 87 lowboy cabinet has 'Philco Furniture, Plant 2' stamped into the wood on the back, so it seems I definitely have one of the Red Lion produced cabinets. One of the two Radiola 66 consoles I owned had a Red Lion built cabinet, but I don't know if it was the one I kept or the one I traded to a friend.

No matter where you go, there you are.
#8

Great information! Thank you for posting this.

Gene
#9

Thank you for this post. It would be good to see pictures of "from raw to ready."
#10

Thank you for posting this information. Back the a LOT of things were make in N.Y. state or needless to say in the good old U.S.A.




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