What a waste . . .

[Jeffhs]

of cabinet space. Please note the size of the chassis of this RCA farm-battery radio, compared to that of the cabinet. I wonder what RCA had in mind. One thing which comes to my mind is that the same basic cabinet may have been used for several different models of these radios, some having larger chassis and/or speaker(s) than this one. However, I still think it was a terrible waste of cabinet space to put such a small chassis in such a huge(!) box. RCA could just as easily have put this chassis in a cabinet the size of a table model and gotten away with it (Zenith's 1937-38 line of "cube" style radios comes to mind; I bet those don't have an inch of wasted space inside the cabinet). The only other reason I can see (beside what I mentioned above) for having a small chassis in a huge cabinet as with this RCA is to make room for the batteries.