Thanks to all for responding and making this list of early color sets complete. You can contact me to let me know of surviving color sets at
[email protected]
The McVoy/Reitan list is meant to cover the first NTSC Field Test sets (if any are found), 16" metal crt prototypes, 15GP22 sets, 19" sets, the first 21" set by each manufacturer using a 21AXP22, and the few 22" Rectangular color sets. I have identified what was built, and are looking for you to say what you know is still surviving.
Yes, before you comment, we know the 21CT55 was RCA's first 21" set - but it was made in small quantities. Really the CTC4 was, as Steve Dichter has said, "RCA's first major marketing of a line of color receivers."
I have a CTC4A, 21CT662U, Director 21 (in mahogany) which is operational and a Hallicrafters 21CK801 (in mahogany). The Hallicrafters used their cabinet to house an early RCA CTC4 chassis. I bought that Hallicrafters as a 15 year old using my paper route monies and would spend hours (over a hot chassis) trying to converge it.
I previously had a Seville (thrown out years ago by my Fraternity brothers at UCLA). Recently, the only other known surviving Hallicrafters 21 was destroyed in a fire.
Ed Reitan
Ed Reitan's Color Television History Web Site is at:
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan