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Originally Posted by zeno
Yup, and they were very tube hungry. Messy construction too.
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Unless this particular TV was a Westinghouse-branded set, with the chassis, etc. made offshore by some fly-by-night electronics firm no one here ever heard of (!), I would be amazed. Westinghouse used to be a well-known American brand of TV and appliances, until this business of rebranding sets began. I was surprised to read in your post that the set's construction was "messy", and the sets ate tubes like crazy. Doesn't sound at all like the Westinghouse of the 1950s-'60s.
The only other thing I can come up with is that these TVs were not made by Westinghouse in the first place; that is, the sets were or may have been manufactured in the US by an unknown (or little-known) electronics firm which simply slapped the Westinghouse name and logo on the cabinets, and thought little or nothing of it (as I mentioned at the beginning of this post). There may have been a lot of this kind of monkey business going on by the 1960s, and it just kept getting worse and worse until it reached the point where no one knew whether a TV was an actual Westinghouse (for example) or an offshore-made piece of junk with a well-known name on the cabinet. I have a can opener I bought when I moved here in 1999, with the White-Westinghouse brand name on the cabinet, but I very, very seriously doubt it was actually made by Westinghouse (the company may have merged with another appliance maker by the late 1990s).
Old_coot88 made a comment that bears out the above, IMHO. If the construction was "cheezy", with the "chassis" being a flimsy PC board, and the company which actually made this TV was simply turning out these sets hand-over-fist, slapping the Westinghouse name and the "circle W" logo on the cabinets without thinking twice, well . . .