Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

RCA, even after it bought Victor, sourced many of its tubes from other 
vendors.  You'll see tubes made in Holland and Germany, rebranded RCA.  It 
came down to who had which tube type up and running on their lines.  They 
didn't like switching over production from one type to another.  And from 
what I understand of tube manufacturing, most all tube manufacturers in the 
USA bought their tube parts from Sylvania, especially cathode assemblies and 
grid wire.  The manufacturing of the individual parts required much greater 
attention to detail than the assembly of the tubes.
Phillip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.


> --- Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You know what? I completely forgot about that. Did they include
> > radios? Or was  that left for a third party installation?
>
> RCA provided the radios to Victor to install in the
> machines; but before RCA bought Victor, RCA didn't have
> much of any manufacturing capability to speak of.  Most
> RCA-badged equipment was acutally manufactured by GE or
> Westinghouse and marketed be RCA.
>
> Ironically, much like with the licensing arrangement with
> Thompson today.
>
>
> David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
>
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