Radio today (Apr-Dec 1939)

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of RADIO arch in Selling/ KMBC. President, C. L. Taylor. Conducts advanced training course in television for men now employed in radio industry. See Advt. Page 78 MOTOROLA — G a 1 v i n Mfg. Corp., 4545 Augusta Blvd., Chicago, 111. President, P. V. Galvin; Sales Mgr. auto set div., E. H. Wavering; Asst. Sales Mgr., Walter Stellner. Products — Auto radios, home sets, portables, wireless record players, combinations, battery sets. Line featured by "Sporter," new miniature portable, carried like camera or field glass. See Advt. Page S MUELLER Electric Co., 1583 E. 31st St., Cleveland, O. Senior partner, Ralph S. Mueller; Sales & Adv. Mgr., Scott Mueller; Foreign Sales Mgr., E. H. de Coningh. Products — Universal radio test clips, radio ground clamps, rubber insulators for clips and insulated grid-clip assemblies. See Advt. Page 7S NATIONAL UNION Radio Corporation, 57 State St., Newark N. J. President and Gen. Mgr., S. W. Muldowny; Gen. Sales Mgr., H. A. Hutchins; Adv. Mgr., G E DeNike. Products — Radio receiving tubes, electrolytic condensers, paper condensers, television picture tubes, radio panel lamps, photo electric cells, exciter lamps, automobile lamp bulbs. Booths 1012-14 — See Advt. Page 77 OHMITE Mfg. Co., 4876 W. Flournoy St., Chicago, 111. President, David T. Siegel; Sales Mgr., Ralph M. Hill; Adv. Mgr., Herbert Levy. Products — Vitreous Enameled Rheostats; Vitreous Enameled Resistors: Fixed, "Dividohm" Adjustable, "Brown Devil," "Wirewatt," Dummy Antenna, "Cordohm," "Multivolt," Precision, Non-inductive; Tap Switches, Band Change SwitchesChokes. Booth 825 — See Advt. Page 80 ONAN — D. W. Onan & Sons, 689 Royalston Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. D. W. Onan. Products — Complete portable electric plants supplying AC to operate appliances, transmitters, receivers, public address systems, etc. 3505,000 watts. 110 or 220 Volts AC; 12, 32, 110 V. DC. See Advt. Page 7S OPERADIO Manufacturing Company, St. Charles, 111. President, J. McWilliams Stone; Sales Mgr., Amplifier Trade Div., Howard A. Wilson; Adv. Mgr.. Frank W Hagaman. Products — Portable and Mobile Public Address Systems, Amplifiers, School Sound Systems, Intercommunicating and Paging Equipment, Public Address and Radio Replacement Speakers, and Public Address Accessories. See Advt. Page 31 OXFORD-TARTAK Radio Corporation, 915 W. Van Buren St., ('hK-.igo, 111. President, P. H. Tartak; Chief Engineer, C. T Harwood: Sales Mgr., J. S. Gartner. Products — Replacement and Public Address Speakers; Electro-Dynamic and Permanent -M^mt; Exponential Horns; Field Exciter Units. Booths 115 — See Advt. Page 04 PHTLCO Radio & Television Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. President. D. E. Gubb; Vice Pres. Sayre m. Ramsdell; Adv. Mgr., E. B. Loveman. Products — 1940 line with these outstanding features in all models: Xew built-in super aerial system. noise-excliirlincr R.F. stage and special design to receive television sound by wireless. See Advt. Page 14 PIONEER Gen-E-Motor Corporation, 466 W. Superior St., Chicago, 111. President and Sales Mgr., David E. Bright. Products — "Pincor" Gasoline Engine Driven Power Plants, Dynamotors, Gen-E-Motors, Converters, Motor Generators, Motors, Special Equipment. Booth 210 — See Advt. Page G7 PRESTO Recording Corporation, 242 W. 55th St., New York. President, Sol Sholes; Sales & Adv. Mgr., R. C. Powell; Chief Engineer, G. J. Saliva. Products — Instantaneous recording equipment, instantaneous recording disks and recording and play-back needles. Booth 110 — See Advt. Page 05 QUAM — Quam -Nichols Company, 33rd Place & Cottage Grove, Chicago, 111. President, J. P. Quam: Ass't. to Pres., Helen Staniland; Chief Engineer, T. S. Trzyna. Products — Quam 'Permanic" speakers having performance and output equal to small dynamic. Booth 728 — See Advt. Page 74 RAYTHEON Production Corp., 445 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111. Vice Pres., David T. Schultz; General Sales Mgr. E. S. Riedel; Replacement Sales Mgr., E. S. Dietrich. Products — Raytheon receiving and transmitting tubes for original equipment and replacement. Booth 7 — See Advt. Page 0 RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., Camden, N. J. President, G. K. Throckmorton; Vice Pres., T. F. Joyce; Adv. & Sales Pro. Mgr., D. J. Finn. Products — RCA-Victor television sets and attachments; radios, radio phonographs, tubes and parts; television test equipment; RCA Victrolas, Victor records and recorders; RCA sound equipment. Booths S2G-28 — See Advt. Pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 02 RCA — Radio Corporation of America. Radio City, New York. President. David Sarnoff; VicePres., Frank Mullen: Mgr. Pub Relations Dept., Horton Heath. Services covering every phase of radio — National Broadcasting Company; RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc.; RCA Communications, Inc.; Radiomarine Corp. of America; RCA Institutes, Inc. See Advt. Page 51 READRITE Meter Works, College Ave., Bluffton, Ohio. President, R. L. Triplett; Sales Mgr., X. A. Triplett: Adv. Mgr., A. R. Baker. Products — Electrical Meters and Radio Testing Equipment. Booth 920 — See Advt. Page SI REGAL Amplifier Mfg. Corp., 14 W. 17th St., New York. President, Walter Spiegel; Sales Mgr., A. LeRoy; Chief Eng.,Fred Berhley. Products — Wired and wireless intercommunicating systems, electric and wireless phonographs, amplifiers, sound systems. See Advt. Page GO RIDER MANUALS — John F. Rider, 404 4th Ave., New York. President & Sales Mgr., John F. Rider; Chief Editor, G. C. B. Rowe. Products — Service Manuals. Volume X, out August 19, four months earlier than usual, to meet demand for servicing data on new radios, television sets, facsimile, wireless record players, etc. Booth 1029 — See Advt. Page 70 SERVICE Instruments, Inc., 404 4th Ave., New York. President and Sales Mgr., John Rider. Prod ucts— Rider Chanalyst, advanced type of service instrument for set analysis and rapid location of sources of trouble. Booth 1031 — See Advt. Page 67 SIMPSON Electric Co., 5202 Kinzie St., Chicago, 111. President, Ray Simpson; Sales Mgr., G. H. Koch. Products — Tube testers, multi-range meters and other servicing instruments in models for bench or portable use. Booths 623-25 — See Advt. Page . . SOLAR Manufacturing Corp., Bayonne, N. J. President, Otto Paschkes; General Mgr., W. C. Harter. Products — New line of "Sealdtite" capacitors in which condenser tubes are cmpletely encased in wax-molded compound. Booth 106 — See Advt. Page 70 SONORA Radio & Television Corp., 2626 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. President, Joseph Gerl; Vice Pres. in charge production, Ben Freund; Chief Engineer, Don Fetterman. Products — Consoles, portables, table, auto, phono-radio, record players, phonographs. See Advt. Page 30 SPRAGUE Products Company, North Adams, Mass. President in Charge of Sales and Advertising, Harry Kalker. Products — Condensers: Dry Electrolytic, Paper, Transmitting, Auto Radio, Silvered Micas, Wet Electrolytic, Oil Filled, Mica, Trimmers. Also a line of power wire-wound KOOLOHM Resistors. Booth G1S — See Advt. Page 75 STEWART-WARNER Corporation, Chicago, 111. Vice-Pres. & Gen. Sales Mgr., Frank A. Hiter; Mgr. Radio Sales, L. S. Kelsey; Adv. Mgr. Radio and Refrigeration, C. C. DeWees. Products— StewartWarner Magic Keyboard radios. Consoles, table models, portables and combinations. Sav-A-Step electric refrigerators and ranges. See Advt. Pages 6-7 STROMBERG CARLSON Telephone Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y. President, Wesley M. Angle; General Sales Mgr., Lloyd L. Spencer; Adv. Mgr., Warren T. Eastwood. Products — Fine radios and radiophonographs in modern and period styles, designed to serve as sound reproducers in future television reception. See Advt. Pages 44-45 SUNDT Engineering Co., 4620 Lincoln Ave.. Chicago, 111. General Mgr., E. V. Sundt. Products — Complete amplifying systems for towers, belfry chimes, etc. Also radio fuses and fuse mountings under trade name "Littlefuse." See Advt. Page 72 SUPERIOR Tube Company, Norristown, Pa. S. L. Gabel, R. H. Gabel, A. M. Bounds. Products — Seamless and Lockseam cathode sleeves of pure nickel, for television, radio and other types of tubes. Speciaists in fine small tubing, in various metals and alloys. See Advt. Page 83 TRIPLETT Electrical Instrument Co., Harmon Drive, Bluffton, Ohio. President, R. L. Triplett; Sales Mgr., N. A. Triplett; Advertising Mgr., A. R. Baker. Products — ■ Precision Electrical Measuring Instruments and Radio Test Equipment. Booths 403-05 — See Advt. Page 10 TUNG-SOL Lamp Works, Inc., 95 8th Ave., Newark, N. J. Vice Pres. & Sales Mgr., R. E. Carlson; Sales Mgr., Replacement div.: W. B. Masland. Products— Tung-Sol radio tubes. Booth 410 — See Advt. Page 62 UNIVERSAL Camera Corp., 32 W. 23rd St., New York. President, O. W. Githens; Vice Pres., J. J. Shapiro; Gen. Sales Mgr., Frank G. Klock. Products — Two new models added to Univex line. Turret "8" with 3-lens mounting for quick turn from long shot to close-up movies. Mercury candid 35 mm. camera with l/1500th second speed. See Advt. Page 69 UNIVERSITY Laboratories, 195 Chrystie St., New York. Chief Engineer, N. Blumenfeld; Sales &. Adv. Mgr., I. Golin. Products — Acoustic reproducers featuring the "rubber tired rim" to eliminate ring and metallic resonance from spun metal horns. Also two new dualdriver speakers. See Advt. Page 73 UTAH Radio Products Co., 820 Orleans St., Chicago, 111. President, G. H. Beasley; Gen. Sales Mgr., Oden Jester. Products — Vibrators for original equipment or replacement; speakers, transformers and Utah-Carter parts. All covered in new catalog. Booths 1018-20 — See Advt. Page 63 WARD LEONARD Electric Co., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. President, L. Kibler; Sales Mgr., A. A. Berard; Adv. Mgr., J. R. Jones. Products — Vitrohm resistors. Also new Safety Relay to protect transmitter operators from shock due to static charges. Relay discharges filter condenser through discharge resistor. Booth 715 — See Advt. Page 83 WARD Products Corp., Ward Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. President, R. N. Wiesenberger; Adv. Mgr., H. R. Wiesenberger. Products — New telescopic cowl type auto aerial with concealed mounting that needs no drilling through car body. Booths S21-23 — See Advt. Page 1 WEBSTER Electric Company, Racine, Wis. President, S. A. Loeb; Sales Mgr. Radio Div., R. Ferda; Asst. to Pres., Henry G. Kobick. Products— Extensive line of sound equipment shown in new catalog. Features new 12-watt portable system having great flexibility and versatility. Booth 428 — See Advt. Page 43 WEBSTER CHICAGO, 5 6 2 2 Bloomingdale Ave., Chicago, 111. President, R. F. Blash; Gen. Mgr. & Treas., Donald MacGregor; Sales Mgr Charles P. Cushway. Products —"Master" line of sound amplifiers in medium price class. Standard line completely modernized; microphones, speakers, phonograph motors and pickups. Booth 1008— See Advt. Page 71 WHOLESALE Radio Service Co., Inc., 100 6th Ave., New York. President, A. Pletman; Adv. Mgr., Herman J. Tauber. Products — Complete lines of sets, tubes, parts, sound equipment, record players, etc.. catalogued for mail selling. See Advt. Page 74 WIL COX-GAY Corporation, Charlotte, Mich. President, C. M. Wilcox; Chief Engineer, Paul Stead Gay; Sales Mgr., Warren Hasemeier. Products— New "Recordio, combining radio receiver, phonograph and recorder. Enables owners to make recordings of broadcast programs or their own voices through microphone. Booth 19— See Advt. Cover III ZOPHAR Mills, Inc., 112-130 26th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. President, H. J. Blank; Sales & Adv. Mgr., L E Mayer; Technical Laboratories, A. Saunders. Products — Waxes for insulation and waterproofing of condensers, coils, transformers, wire and all types of electrical equipment. See Advt. 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