Hallicrafters Roundie

[Sandy G]

Hallicrafters DID make a mere handful of color sets, but I don't know if they were 15" or 21s.. They threw in the towel on TVs sometime around 1955 or '56. Seems like I remember reading that they were all given/rented to their larger distributors, none offered to the general public.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Hallicrafters DID make a mere handful of color sets, but I don't know if they were 15" or 21s.. They threw in the towel on TVs sometime around 1955 or '56. Seems like I remember reading that they were all given/rented to their larger distributors, none offered to the general public.

I don't know of 15" sets (Maybe they existed, and I never heard of them, maybe they did not exist) but Hali DID offer a rebadged CTC-4 in a cabinet different from the RCAs....THOSE were 21" and used the 21AXP22. Bob Galanter brought a VERY rotten one back from the dead....He practically had to make it a new cabinet....Only 2 of those Hali CTC-4s still exist so finding another one would be a very rare and valuable find indeed.

[Steve D.]

Newspaper article from Dec. 23, 1957.

-Steve D.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Newspaper article from Dec. 23, 1957.

I think a recession was happening around then.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I think a recession was happening around then.

It looks like some of their employees received a real nice Christmas gift, a pink slip.
I know, they made sets for Sears and Sylvania. There was some kind of connection with Crosley, as well. Crosley quit TV's and radios, around the same time.