Westinghouse K840CK15 Restoration

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

The CT-100 was basically a model 5 demonstration prototype with a cabinet restyle and a couple of minor electronic tweaks...It was more designed to wow the FCC into approving compatible color than to be a consumer product....As a consumer set the CT-100 seems like a case of" uh oh the FCC approved faster than we thought and others are beating us to market we gotta get something out there quick"...The 21CT55 exists for the same reason...CBS beat them to releasing a set with a CRT bigger than 15" and rather than push the completion date of the existing project that became the CTC4 they just modded a CT-100 to drive a 21" CRT and redid the cabinet....It was an awesome product catalog bandaid for the few months it was sold.

I’ve felt the 21CT55 was kind of an engineering mule for what was to come. Not much advertising and no name given to it, although a sign was put on top of the cabinet on the production line with the suits posing next to it. The sign read “Spectacular”. I’ve yet to find any article actually describing the 21CT55 as the Spectacular. I like the CT-4 Director styling wise, much improved over the 55 and the start of RCA’s big color push, “Big Color”.

The Westy stying wise, reflected the contemporary look of 1954 more so then the CT-100. Never mind the washing machine jokes and when the 19 inch CRT came, filled up the mask proportions better.

“You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse”.