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Old 05-11-2011, 11:59 AM
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I find it interesting that Stromberg-Carlson decided to calibrate the dial on this set in megahertz, rather than kilohertz (mc and kc, of course, when the radio was new). This is the first radio I have ever seen with the AM dial calibrated this way, and frankly, I was amazed. At first I thought this was a shortwave-only set, without AM broadcast coverage.

BTW, I've been wondering who actually built the radio chassis for Stromberg-Carlson. Was SC an independent company, building all its own sets, or were the chassis made by RCA, Zenith, Admiral, et al.? I seem to remember recently reading somewhere (maybe in these forums) that SC's radios were made by Admiral and sold under the SC name. The radio being discussed here looks very much like one of Admiral's table models from the late 1930s.
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