Radio today (Jan-Dec 1937)

Complete Electric Plants ONAN ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATING PLANTS furnish the same electricity as city power lines. Made in sizes 3 50 to 10,000 watts to meet the requirements of those who must provide their own electricity for Farms, Summer Camps, Cottages, Boats, Commercial Purposes. OPERATE A. C. RADIO These A. C Plants operate RADIO, HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES, WATER PUMP, MOTORS — anything that normally would operate from city lines. Will run Public Address Systems, Demonstrating Car Equipment, Talking Moving Pictures, X-Ray. MODERN CONSTRUCTION ONAN PLANT Engines are like the Motor Car, Truck or Tractor Engines. Operate on Gasoline, Gas or Distillate, Wiring and Installation is the same as for standard applications. Also 32 volt, Direct Currem Models. Write for Details D. W. ONAN & SONS 572 Rovalsl-^n Ave. Minneapolis, Minn. . . . Lafayette WILL HELP YOU GET A PROFITABLE SHARE OF IT! r. /\. is Big Business todayl LAFAYETTE answers this fact with CO-ORDINATED SOUND SYSTEMS— completely assembled — pre-tested — easy to install — ready for instant and faultless operation. Priced right, they offer a system for every conceivable P.A. application. Send for FREE 116 page catalog now listing in detail all LAFAYETTE CO-ORDINATED SOUND SYSTEMS and component parts. MAIL COUPON NOW! WHOLESALE RADIO SERVICE CO., Inc. 100 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. Y Rush FREE catalog No. 68-12D7G 1 1 ' '^M \a gn -^BRpm m mx,. '\ Jl u *^ C. T. Wandres, ad. manager of G E Radio, talks over the new complete GE tube line with H. A. Crossland, tube sales manager. City.. FREE!! TRADE FLASHES •k Announced by Oarostat Mfg. Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., is a new sales representative for New England area: Harry Gerber, 49 Portland St., Boston, Mass. * Huge new music store, Westchester Piano Co., has been established at 524 North Ave., New Rochelle, N. Y. Proprietors A. F. Olsen and J. J. Burggraf plan to enlarge and develop the radio department, under the direction of any suitable radio expert who is seeking a mutually profitable arrangement. * New radio store, Eveready Radio Sei-vice, Inc., has been opened by Jack Davis at 135 E. 57th St., New York City. Davis has a record department, is active in sound work. Radio lines stocked include Emerson, GE, Philco, Westinghouse, Stromberg-Carlson, Zenith, Air-King, RCA and DeWald. * C. J. Stevens, Des Moines, la., has been named district manager for Crosley Radio Corp. in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska. * A group of Chicago capitalists has purchased the internationally known radio trade-name Clarion and has started to manufacture a complete line of radio sets bearing this well known name. Clarion Coiijoration will have executive offices in the Pure Oil Building, Chicago. R. B. Lacey, capable and popular radio executive, becomes vicepresident and general manager and announces company will manufacture home, automoble and farm radios, to be sold only through wholesale distributors on a restricted distributor's territorial basis, with Clarion automobile radios as the first product available for the trade. "Bob" Lacey has been identified with radio merchandising for many years, having been for the past five years general sales manager of the WilcoxGay Corp., and previously for a number of years general sales manager of the Ferryman Tube Corp. ■* M. Lehman, president of Lehman Radio Salon, Inc., 1013 Madison Ave., New York City, has received a letter from the famous orchestra leader, Leo Reisman. Letter speaks of Port-O-Matic, the Lehman product: "Of all the machines I have ever owned, I find that this one reproduces sound most accurately." Mr. Lehman pioneered the portable automatic phonograph radio combination. * Further expansion on the part of the American Zinc Products Co., Inc., Greencastle, Ind., is the opening of a new Chicago oflBce at 43 E. Ohio St. All sales activity in the Chicago area will be handled through the new office under the direction of F. Clifford Estey, veteran district manager. * Radio division of GE has announced the opening of a new factory branch at 1321 S. Washington St., Peoria, 111. *■ E. F. Johnson Co., Waseca, Minn., makers of radio transmitting parts, are now occupying a new factory and oflice building which will triple available space. Personnel has been hiked and equipment added. L. W. Olander, formerly an RCA engineer and at one time with the Bell Telephone Labs, is the new chief engineer for the Johnson firm. * One of the state universities of the Middle West recently conducted a series of tests of recording apparatus and equipment. Experimenters took products from 6 U.S. manufacturers; Universal Microphone Co., Inglewood, Cal., was notified that it had won first place with its products. 78 (Index to advertisements on page 77) Radio Today