[Arran]

I'm not surprised that there are alignment issues with panels, and other things, these were production pieces of furniture after all, and the lowboy cabinet was the most mass produced of all the early Philco consoles. Since Philco was still new to the radio business, and decided to build most of their cabinets in house, they probably had not worked all the bugs out of the production line that early on. Some really never did work the bugs out of the line, I have a Crosley cabinet from the mid 40s where they glued one of the front pilasters on with an 1/8'' gap between it and the side panel, I fixed that and found out that the foot on the bottom now sticks out too far. Crosley (not Deforest Crosley) was notorious for building cheap sets.
Regards
Arran