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48-861? Info?
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Your 48-861 looks like a progression of the 42-760 that came out in June 1941 for the 1942 season.

http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1942a.htm#ae

Philco of Canada also had this model in their 1942 lineup, but they called it Model 55T and sold it in Canada. The USA-made 42-760, like all Tropic models, was intended for export to Central and South America.

After the war, Philco offered a few Tropics in their 1946 lineup; the 46-860 was one of these. I do not have a photo of it, so I do not know if it looked like the 42-760 or more like your 48-861.

Now we know of the existence of a 48-861; a model I did not know of before this thread.

This line of Philco sets was closed out, as far as I know, by Philco's introduction of Model 53-960 in their 1953 lineup. Unlike the others mentioned previously, the 53-960 was sold domestically, and therefore is easier to find than any Tropic model.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


Messages In This Thread
48-861? Info? - by Guest - 08-22-2010, 05:29 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by rghines1 - 08-22-2010, 08:06 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Guest - 08-22-2010, 08:44 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by rghines1 - 08-22-2010, 09:10 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Guest - 08-22-2010, 09:33 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Ron Ramirez - 08-22-2010, 09:39 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Guest - 08-22-2010, 09:50 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Carl Travis - 08-22-2010, 11:32 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Guest - 08-23-2010, 11:19 PM
Re: 48-861? Info? - by Ron Ramirez - 08-24-2010, 07:36 AM



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