[Jim Dutridge]

I have a model 27 that someone painted the cabinet brown. I've been trying to sell it for awhile but the cabinet paint makes it difficult. I did do a chassis restore on it and I must say that with even the shortest antenna it is a very sensitive radio.

[Eliot Ness]

Richard, Radiotrope was one of the many nameplates coming out of the Marion, Indiana U.S. Radio and Television Corp plant.
Gloritone was probably the better known brand coming from them.

[Arran]

Another make I have seen from U.S Radio and Television was Apex Electric, or U.S Apex, the badge on some of those had a pointed mountain top shaped logo, with A.P.E.X forming the crest with letters. The model 27 I have was built by Grimes-Phonola, likely under license, either that or they bought the chassis in knock down form, they made other U.S. R & T models too, though I don't own any, they also had a relationship will Wells Gardner, but they started as a Canadian affiliate of David Grimes, as the name reveals. Phonola owned their own furniture company so they could build whatever cabinet design they, or one of their private label contractees, wanted.
Regards
Arran