Majestic chairside

[Sam Cogley]

Originally Posted by Reece

I believe someone put this radio chassis into an older cabinet. The dial is off center in the cabinet top. There is (what appears to be?) a large speaker grille on one side and what looks like a dial bezel on the other which doesn't make any sense. If your bandswitch has three positions, one might be for a phonograph: trace the wiring and perhaps the plug hanging off the back is AC for the phono motor, and one of the jacks is for phono input. The radio has a loop antenna for AM, but for FM would probably, in that era, need an external antenna so there should be some terminals for that.

Reece

There are terminals for FM in the center of the AM loop, and there was a very professionally installed FM antenna along the inside of the cabinet. Whoever modified this thing did a clean job of it.

The speaker grille is on one side (where it would face outward into a room with the radio on the right-hand side of a chair), and the dial bezel is on top. There are no other holes in the cabinet.

I'm fairly certain now that the radio head came out of a Majestic radio/TV/possibly phono console. I haven't been able to find any pictures of that exact dial face and bezel, though.