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I posted this somewhere here once before:
I wasn't in marketing at Zenith so I can't say for sure, but I believe they took their model names from town/city names in an atlas - and I believe they definitely checked that no competing brands used the same names. There probably were copyright issues involved, but they wouldn't want the same names anyway.
Many of the RCA names have a British origin (except the Seville, I guess) or refer to something considered elegant (Haviland <-->porcelain china). "Gainsborough" was an artist and is also a town name.
I also say ho-hum to the charcoal gray sameness of present designs.
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