[Arran]

Engineering and marketing a completely automatic tuned set seems to have been something that Philco toyed with for a number of years but never actually put into production until this came along. I noticed in Ron's book that there was a console model that Philco promoted in 1939 that was completely push button tuned but nobody has ever found an example of one. However there was a Sparton model that was all pushbutton tuned from 1938 I believe, those have about 8 or more pushbuttons in the front panel and no dial. I guess they figured that if something like this was going to go over that it would be best to try it on an AC/DC set first, obviously it didn't take off since there was no 1950 version and no other model with that feature.
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Arran