Radio Broadcast (May 1929-Apr 1930)

z Distributors Appointed TRIAD: The Spencer Company, of Memphis, Tennessee, has been appointed factory representative for Triad Tubes covering the entire southern territory. KELLOGG: The Fleer-Petty Auto Supply Company, 2823 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo., has been appointed to handle Kellogg sales in the St. Louis district and surrounding counties. The Louisville territory will be handled for the Kellogg Company by the L. & L. Tire and Battery Company, 307 N. Kentucky Ave., Louisville, Ky. The territory consists of a number of counties around Louisville in Kentucky and a few counties in Indiana. The Raub Supply Company, Mulberry, James and Concord Sts., Lancaster, Penna., has been appointed to cover the central Pennsylvania territory. They will operate in Lancaster, Harrisburg, York, Wilkesbarre and the surrounding territories. The southeastern territory has been taken over by the Universal Motor Company, Inc., 1710 Altamont Ave., Richmond, Virginia. SPEED: The Martwel Corporation, 1501 Broadway, N. Y. C, special sales representatives for Speed radio tubes, has just announced the appointment of several new Speed distributors. G. J. Seedman Co., Inc., of Brooklyn, for Greater New York; Northern Distributing Co., of Newark, for Northern New Jersey and the Syracuse Auto Supply Co. for Central New York State. A. C. DAYTON: The Ideal Radio Cabinet Mfg. Co. Inc., of 151 West 19th Street , New York, will distribute A. C. Dayton Co. receivers. TEMPLE : The Temple Corporation announces appointment of the following distributors: Wisconsin Auto Supply Co., of Wausau, Wis.; Maass Radio Corporation, of Baltimore, Md. ; Broom Distributing Co., of Binghamton, N. Y.; JohnsonFerrill, of Louisville, Ky., and Henry L. Walker, of Detroit, Michigan. About 70 jobbers and over 3000 dealers are now selling Temple receivers, according to Gordon C. Sleeper, vice-president and sales manager. GREBE: BrothweU H. Baker, sales manager of A. H. Grebe & Co., Inc., of Richmond Hill, N. Y., announced the appointment of Stewart-Downey, Inc., 700 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., as distributors of Grebe products in the Boston territory which consists of Massachusetts, Vermont and the western half of New Hampshire. Stewart-Downey, Inc. is a newcomer to the ranks of radio distributors but it enters the field with a wealth of personal experience in back of it. John Stewart and Joseph A. Downey organized the Radio Department of The Boston Post in 1923 and have been in charge of this department ever since. SONORA: Appointment of the K. W. Radio Co., Inc. as New York Metropolitan distributor of Sonora radio, Sonora phonograph and Sonora radio-phonograph combinations, including the well-known Melodon, has been announced by Eugene P. Herrman, president of the Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc. Headquarters of the K. W. Radio Co., are at 350 Hudson RADIO BROADCAST NEWS SECTION This interesting booth was set up recently at the Buenos Aires 1929 Radio shotv by Ditlevsen and Co., Atwater-Kent, distributors. Street, New York City. The officers are Leonard Welling, president, and Gus Krouse, treasurer. KELLOGG: In Cleveland a factory branch has been established by the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company. Office and warehouse space has been leased at 1531 W. 25th Street. The branch will be in charge of F. W. Lorenz, formerly sales representative for the Ohio territory. Assisting Mr. Lorenz are Mr. Shibler and Mr. Moran. Crosley Distributor Appointment The Dallas branch of the Shield Company, Crosley distributors, is under new management, E. B. Howard having succeeded C. B. Wakefield who has resigned to go into the wholesale furniture business. Inside the Spear and Company store, New York City, there has been erected a miniature brick house in which they exhibit their outstanding features. X Distributors Sales Meetings TENNESSEE : The Atwater-Kent dealers of the Memphis territory, held their annual Dealers Conference at the Hotel Peabody, Memphis, Tenn., August 14th, under the auspices of the Braid Electric Company, Atwater-Kent distributors. Luncheon was served at 12 o'clock and the business meeting followed immediately after the official photograph and the j address of welcome by E. E. Hyde, Braid Electric Co. W. W. Gambill, Braid Electric Co., opened the meeting, and was followed by E. L. Hollingsworth, A-K territory manager, John F. McCoy, A-K Mfg. Co., Ben B. Barber, Atwater-Kent sales promotion dep't. Luther Still, assistant territory manager and W. W. Gambill, Jr., Braid Electric Co. The next day, Thursday, was devoted to a service school conducted by AtwaterKent service officials, for dealers' servicemen. TEXAS: The Shield Company, Inc., of Dallas and Ft. Worth, announces that their regular Crosley dealer convention was held on the top floor of the Texas hotel in Ft. Worth on August 7th. Short talks were given by officials of the Crosley Radio Corporation and representatives of the Finance Companies who will handle the finance paper for the dealers this coining season. This year promises to be a big one in radio and from the speedy replies which the dealers are making on the invitation letter, this year promises to be the largest and most enthusiastic convention which The Shield Company has held. Practically all the dealers have expressed their enthusiasm for the new Crosley line for the coming III season by ordering heavier at this time of |{ the season than at any time in the past. I I PENNSYLVANIA: The dealers served | ; by the Edison Distributing Corporation of Pittsburgh had their first opportunity h to view the new Edison Light-O-Matic n models at a special exhibit in the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, on July 26, 27 and 28. The exhibit was arranged and conducted by H. F. Andre, branch manager at Pittsburgh, assisted by H. H. Silliman, eastern sales manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Several hundred dealers attended. NEW YORK: The Majestic Distributors, Inc., sponsored a novel and interesting banquet, tendered to the Morison Electrical Supply Co., of New York City, on the evening of July 31, 1929. The banquet was held in the ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. There were present 170 salesmen, sale managers and executives of the Morison Electrical Supply Co., together with the executives and salesmen of Majestic Distributors, Inc. Herbert E. Young, general sales manager for the GrigsbyGrunow Co., of Chicago, 111., was the guest of honor and delivered a message on "Outside Selling and Sales Promotion." C. T. Morison, president of the company bearing his name, also talked, outlining the plans and policies to be employed in the campaign which were to be directed on Majestic Radio Receivers during the month of August. • OCTOBER 1929 • • 341