Article about General Electric 15CL100

[benman94]

That settles it for me; I'm sold, Admiral was first, Westinghouse second, GE third, RCA fourth.

[Steve D.]

Seems the Benton Harbor TV dealer also had an Admiral demo set. He did offer to order the sets for customers and listed a sale price. So perhaps like Beacon's dept. store he was retailing color TV very early on. I would have to agree that Admiral was the first to offer color tv for public sale. As for the Lux prize giveaway, this was in May 1955. Long after 15" color receivers were obsolete. Seems Admiral had at least 10 of these sets still on hand. Thank you etype 2 for your research. I would like to see the Google snippet on the 1000 set production for the Admiral color sets just for my own records. Also, seems that Lux wasn't the only soap co. that offered 15" color sets as prizes. This from 1954: http://www.earlytelevision.org/fab_contest.html

-Steve D

[etype2]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Seems the Benton Harbor TV dealer also had an Admiral demo set. He did offer to order the sets for customers and listed a sale price. So perhaps like Beacon's dept. store he was retailing color TV very early on. I would have to agree that Admiral was the first to offer color tv for public sale. As for the Lux prize giveaway, this was in May 1955. Long after 15" color receivers were obsolete. Seems Admiral had at least 10 of these sets still on hand. Thank you etype 2 for your research. I would like to see the Google snippet on the 1000 set production for the Admiral color sets just for my own records. Also, seems that Lux wasn't the only soap co. that offered 15" color sets as prizes. This from 1954: http://www.earlytelevision.org/fab_contest.html

-Steve D

Very cool. Okay Steve, will send it to you.

Here is the RCA 21CT55 contest promotion in 1955.

http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...IMG_1304-1.jpg

[Steve D.]

etype2,


Thanks for the Parkay contest photo ad. Very rare promotion for the 21CT55 even if by proxy.

-Steve D.