[Jeffhs]

Crosley used the wraparound vertical style chassis in some of its TVs in the '50s. When I was growing up we had a Crosley Super V 21" blonde b&w console with that type of chassis, selenium LV rectifiers (no transformers--series filaments), but only one speaker below the CRT. Eight inches round, IIRC.

It's interesting that the Truetone color set mentioned here has a transformer powering only one tube, with the rest powered from the main transformer and getting B+ from the selenium LV supply. Very unusual design, but I guess there were a lot of TVs set up with unconventional power supplies in the '50s.

Truetone was indeed marketed through Western Auto, as several of you have said here. My aunt and uncle had a 21" Truetone blonde b&w console in the '50s through the late '60s, IIRC, which had the Western Auto logo directly above the CRT. (The set was Truetone's "Imperial" model with the picture controls surrounding the volume control, which along with the channel selector was mounted at the top of the set; the channel selector was at the top right of the CRT, with the volume and picture controls at the top left corner.) In fact, they had several appliances which were marketed under WA's "Wizard" brand as well.