Teeny 1938 metal "Mighty-Mite" radio

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Originally Posted by Jeffhs

BTW, I seriously doubt that Arvin, or any other radio manufacturer, was making radios for civilian use between 1941 and 1946, as all civilian production of radios and just about everything else came to a screeching halt starting in '41, at the beginning of World War II; civilian production of these sets, and everything else, would not resume until the war's end in 1946-'47.

Philco sold consoles based on car Radios in 42-43 to use up the wearhouses of car Radios left unused when Detroit switched to war production....wood was still readily available for civilian uses then and I guess they could still get sufficient parts to change the power supply. There were also the civilian gray metal cabinet detrola radios sold in 1945-46....the government ordered them as morale radios for opperation downfall (invasion of Japan) but little boy and fat man ended the need for the opperation. The radios were already built when uncle Sam cancelled the order so detrola shaved off the metal handles, painted over the olive drab with silver and sold them to the desperate radio starved masses....there are probably a few other examples especially if you count civilian sets that got beefed up to mil/navy spec (EH Scott is an example).