Ravenswood TV in Overland Park, KS

[Phil Nelson]

E.H. Scott purists will sniff and point out that E.H. left the company during WWII. The postwar company, Scott Radio Labs, made some nice radios (I own two), but none of them had quite the same reputation as the prewar stuff.

Scott had a sort of a la carte approach to selling chassis & cabinets. They certainly offered a variety of TVs in their combos. I have spent years trying to identify the TV in my combo. It's not listed under Scott in Sams or any other docs I've found. It's a decent TV, but I don't think it has the same oh-so-yummy build quality that prewar Scott radios were known for.

Phil

[RitchieMars]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

I don't think it has the same oh-so-yummy build quality that prewar Scott radios were known for.

That's a shame. One could only imagine what might have been if the E.H. Scott legacy had continued into the post-war era, manufacturing what might have been the "Rolls Royce" of television sets. Imagine a CRT sitting on top of a chassis like this:

[Phil Nelson]

Well, Radio Craftsman made a chrome-plated chassis. That's the only one I can recall, offhand.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/radio_craftsman.html

Chrome's cool, but it doesn't have quite the same impact on a TV chassis. Perhaps it's the lower component density.

Phil

[7"estatdef]

The posted Sam's dates 1951.
Terry

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by RitchieMars

That's a shame. One could only imagine what might have been if the E.H. Scott legacy had continued into the post-war era, manufacturing what might have been the "Rolls Royce" of television sets. Imagine a CRT sitting on top of a chassis like this:

RCA made a few large console rear-projection combo sets about 1947-48 with chrome-plated radio and amplifier chassis, but the TV chassis may not have been plated.