Ravenswood TV in Overland Park, KS

[bandersen]

Looks like an early 16" rectangular set. Never heard of this brand before

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ravenswood-Vinta...-/150518676985

[David Roper]

I'll go out on a limb and say it looks like a 20"er.

[jr_tech]

I also think that it might be a 20", but it is difficult to get a sense of scale here...what has me baffled is the use of the black rubber boot around the front of the tube. Could this be a Metal cone tube?
jr

[bandersen]

I didn't realized there were 20" rectangular CRTs. Did they come out at the same time at the 16s ?

[AUdubon5425]

I have a 20" in my '51 Magnavox - 20CP4 I think...

[jr_tech]

I think the 20" crts were about a year later than the 16s... 1950-1951.
jr

[bandersen]

Here's the data on the 20CP4: http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/tubes/sy...ts/20CP4_2.jpg

[jeyurkon]

If anyone has the Sams Folder 150-11, Ravenswood is a model of E.H. Scott.

John

[bgadow]

Pulled the Sams (I have extras, in case somebody here buys it and wants a copy), this is one of those where they only picture the chassis on the cover. I guess it saw use in a lot of custom installs. The picture tubes listed are: 16KP4, 16RP4, 16TP4, 17BP4 AND 20DP4. As an explanation of the name, the address listed for Scott Radio Labs in Chicago is 4541 Ravenswood Avenue. I don't notice anything unusual about the chassis.

[bandersen]

I wonder if this is the same building ?

[bgadow]

I can picture that...the building looks like it was old even when this set was made. Perhaps Scott built that addition to the right?

[John Marinello]

If that's an E.H. Scott set, that could very well be the polar opposite of a Muntz.

[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