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No expert here but it looks like a home made job, especially that grille work looks like it's from an old radiator enclosure!
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I don't know but I will research it when I get home.
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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=-UQEAA...le&f=false
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Here also is an October 1946 Popular Science article about the radios
https://books.google.com/books?id=YCEDAA...ic&f=false
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Where's the coin slot? The motel probably went bankrupt giving their costumer "free-radio"!
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