Can you believe this?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by tubesrule

I've never understood this Steve and have had several conversations myself with people about this. You tell them that the chassis used many miniature tubes that weren't available until during or after the war and they shrug it off. You then get the line "well the cabinets were made pre-war and then stored in a warehouse until after the war". So how did they design a cabinet before the war that was to small to fit any chassis design of the time that used all octal tubes? Do people really think this is how engineering works, the cabinet is designed and then a chassis is made to fit? I guess Vassos had a crystal ball so he was able to designed the cabinet ahead of time :/ Like you say, convincing them of this is futile. Let them believe what they want.

Darryl

Not claiming to be in the prewar camp, but a few 'devil's advocate' arguments come to mind. While there is no way Vassos would know the chassis size and layout years in advance and no way the cabinets were made pre-war, there is still a possibility that the design could have been drawn up pre-war. A drawing with no actual dimensions, but rather proportion ratios for the cabinet could have been drawn up, and after the war when the chassis was designed the control layout, CRT and speaker placement could have been made to fit a cabinet of the proportional design scaled to fit the chassis...

I'd wager more than a few chassis were only at best half designed before the cabinet team gave them some specks to build to.