Stromberg-Carlson FR-503

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I'd guess mid '50's on this one.

Stromberg-Carlson was a great make of radios and TVs in the 1950s. My aunt had a SC television (no radio or record changer) in the 1950s; hers was in a white Chinese Provincial cabinet and had, IIRC, at least a 21" CRT.

Your mid-1950s estimate on the receiver's vintage could be right on. I think this console's receiver must have been made sometime between 1953 and 1963, because of the Conelrad emergency-broadcast icons on the AM dial.

BTW, this must have been one of Stromberg-Carlson's better (if not outright best) systems because of the design of the receiver and also the record changer. This system must have cost a bundle when it was new.

BTW (2): I just looked at one of the pictures of the chassis of this set and noticed that one of the antenna leads is looped around the 5Y3 rectifier tube. This is a potential fire hazard, as these tubes get very hot in normal operation.