[Arran]

I think all Enerson had Ingraham cabinets....I am yet to see one that wasn't.

What so special about Ingraham anyways?
Seems like everyone who lists a 30-s Emerson says "Ingraham cabinet".

Mike;
 As far as I can tell the B.S over the Emerson sets with "Ingraham Cabinets" started with the Mark Stein picture books that came out in the 1990s. Those books, while they are interesting to flick through, are full of erroneous information and some was just plain fabricated, most notoriously that Philco manufactured radios of poor quality. Not only do his books claim every Emerson had an Ingraham cabinet he claims the same with Stewart Warner, Firestone, Truetone, and even Zenith cabinets, all three were built in the Chicago area and would have used regional furniture and or cabinet companies, not a company in Connecticut. Basically any smaller table radio from 1938-42, with a somewhat unusual or attractive design, he claimed as having an Ingraham cabinet.
 What was even more nuts is that he attributed "Ingraham" as having built the cabinets for the Canadian G.E KL500. Canadian G.Es were built in Toronto, and in Southern Ontario there were at least a half dozen or more regional furniture companies that could have built cabinets for C.G.E rather then an American outfit.
 As you well know Emerson was a company that specialized in producing inexpensive radios, and whilst there are some that had interesting cabinet designs, made by Ingraham, there were not really high quality either, not compared to something like a Stromberg. Ingraham was like the Emerson of time pieces, they specialized in building inexpensive clocks, particularly by the time they started working for Emerson making radio cabinets.
Regards
Arran