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Originally Posted by egrand
Fantastic work and a great picture!
At the time a lot of auto parts sold a lot of other items such as radios and TV's, and United Service distributed them, similar to Firestone and Western Auto. I suppose Delco thought some of their dealers would get into repair and ordered up a batch of 5AXP4's to distribute to them.
I found a 1950 Billboard article that said Delco executives were looking at getting into making their own sets instead of re-branding others. Obviously, they decided not to. It does seem that it might have worked if they had combined them with Fridgidaire appliances.
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I bought a lot of tubes branded GM Delco. They were sold at the distributors that handled parts for Delco car radios. They were RCA sourced. The test CRT was probably bought from those firms.
