Dumont found at recycling center

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Originally Posted by jr_tech

Interesting! So most (if not all) of the early RCA clones were produced in the RCA factory. Was this only the chassis, or did RCA build the entire set? I have read that by this point in time (after 1958) the DuMont brand (at least for TV sets) was owned by Emerson, so I wonder where the set was assembled; Emerson factory?, RCA factory?, or perhaps Emerson acquired the DuMont factory and continued production there?
Perhaps some interesting history in this beat-up old set!

jr

I've seen and worked on GE, Magnavox, Sylvania, Philco, Olympic, the Wells-Gardner and Warwick sourced sets and maybe a few others and they were all RCA built!
The final assembly was done in the respective manufacturers plants. The knobs, cabinets and front bezels were supplied by the resellers.