01-17-2025, 07:42 PM
I don't know too much about pre war Motorola sets, but I don't think they had a wide distribution outside of the U.S Midwest, sort of like a Fada would be in the East, or Packard Bell in the West. I'm sort of curious about the clock, did it have a ring of buttons around the perimeter of the dial, like a Teledial style radio dial? Is the dial glass missing from the radio portion? There are a few picture of Motorola sets in "A flick of the Switch" and there may be ads in magazine on Worldradiohistory.com (not sure of the URL for that).
From looking I think that the plastic escutcheons may be made out of that infamous plastic known as "Tenite", it was cellulose based as the early version was unstable known for shrinking, warping, cracking, and disintegrating, depending on the formula, the worst was used on Sears Silvertone sets around 1937, but was also used on several of our beloved Philcos. The brown trim next to the control panel looks like a faux finish, the fact that it isn't sun faded like the rest of the cabinet is the tip off.
From looking at the schemaic on Nostalgai Air, it would seem that most of the effort was put into the automation gadgets on this set, and not the radio receiver itself. It has only two bands, no tuned RF amplifier stage, and only one IF amplifier. Also it has only eight tubes, and two of them are rectifier tubes connected in parallel. not only that but it uses all the older 6.3 volt tubes with the old style base. An RCA 816K it is not, but you can use it to wake up in the morning.
http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByModel...006813.pdf
Regards
Arran
From looking I think that the plastic escutcheons may be made out of that infamous plastic known as "Tenite", it was cellulose based as the early version was unstable known for shrinking, warping, cracking, and disintegrating, depending on the formula, the worst was used on Sears Silvertone sets around 1937, but was also used on several of our beloved Philcos. The brown trim next to the control panel looks like a faux finish, the fact that it isn't sun faded like the rest of the cabinet is the tip off.
From looking at the schemaic on Nostalgai Air, it would seem that most of the effort was put into the automation gadgets on this set, and not the radio receiver itself. It has only two bands, no tuned RF amplifier stage, and only one IF amplifier. Also it has only eight tubes, and two of them are rectifier tubes connected in parallel. not only that but it uses all the older 6.3 volt tubes with the old style base. An RCA 816K it is not, but you can use it to wake up in the morning.
http://www.nostalgiaair.org/PagesByModel...006813.pdf
Regards
Arran
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