Thread: Proud New Owner of A Pile of Dusty Radios
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Old 08-18-2015, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by toxcrusadr View Post
Lordy, it looks like that Royal 500 may be a 1955 original. I'm going to have to open it up and see if it's hand wired.

http://radiojayallen.com/zenith-roya...%80%9D-radios/

The Regency TR-1 only came out in 1954 so the Royal 500 was right behind it on the market.
The knobs were different on the real early one, plus it was a hand wired chassis. IIRC, this model was a 1956 model.
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