Radio today (Apr-Dec 1939)

The Talk of the Trade... With RED • DOT Lifetime Guaranteed Instru ment Model 1612 NEW -^^ TUBE TESTER With SPEED ROLL CHART • A Tester you will want to own . . . with an Impressive, 7-inch RED • DOT Lifetime Guaranteed Instrument. The Sensation of the Season, this new Triplett Tube Tester meets all your demands and many times more. Illuminated Speed Roll Chart shows 36 tube settings at a single glance . . . the entire chart can be covered in less than 10 seconds. Tester provides for future filament voltages — 20 steps from 1 to 110. It has all the tube sockets, including the Loctal and Bantam Jr. types. Checks 117Z6 and other high voltage tubes. Will not de-activate 1.4 volt or other type tubes — an advantage of all current Triplett Tube Testers. Has noise test jack and separate line voltage control meter. 6-inch GOODBAD Scale in colors which stand out against the dark background. The case and panel is seamless steel, streamlined, finished in suede baked enamel, silver grey and maroon color, trimmed in chrome. Dealer Price $29.84 Model 1613 Model 1613 — For Portable or Counter Use — Otherwise same as Model 1612. Dealer Net Price $34.84 PascIUoh' ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS The Triplett Electrical Instrument Co. 197 Harmon Ave., Bluffton, Ohio Please send me more information on □ Model 1612; □ Model 1613. I am also interested in Name Address City State Good humor in the National Union booth at trade show. Left to right are: J. McBride, N.U. district mgr; Joseph Demambro, Boston jobber; G. E. DeNike, ad mgr; interested visitor; Billy Hendrickson, New England district mgr and Joe Clancy, N.U. Chicago salesman. The KenRad Tube & Lamp Corp., Owensboro, Ky., were recently notified by the French government that the Ministry of Post and Telegraph had adopted KenRad tubes as the only American tubes to be purchased by France for the coming year. Exclusive KenRad distributor in France is Etts Camile Dreyfus. New rep for Setchell-Carlson is Robert Milsk, 2964 Gladstone Ave., Detroit, Mich. He represents the entire line in Michigan and Indiana. Elliot-Lewis Co. of Philadelphia and Henry O. Berman of Baltimore . are recently appointed distributors of the Stromberg-Carlson line of radios and radio-phonographs. The Elliot-Lewis Co., with headquarters at 2518 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, will handle the line in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Henry O. Berman will concentrate on the Baltimore area. Head offices of the company are located at 25 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. Other distributors announced are The Joseph Hornberger Co. of Reading, Pa., and the J. R. S. Distributors of York, Pa. Leon Adelman, jobbers sales manager at Cornell Dubilier, is making a tour covering the entire United States. The itinerary calls for a fast trip to the northwest then to Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas. The south and southeast will then be covered. Through error, Samuel E. Egert, now representing Browning Labs, was reported in the June issue of Radio Today as formerly representing Utah Radio Products Co. and Webster Co. Mr. Egert has represented these firms for several years and is at present actively engaged as their representative. John Altmayer, advertising manager of The Brush Development Company, Cleveland, for more than two years, has just joined the advertising agency of Gregory and Bolton, Inc.. with offices in Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio, in the capacity of account executive and technical consultant. The Brush Development Company advertising continues to be handled by Gregory and Bolton, Inc. Larry E. Gubb, president, Philco Radio & Television, addressing Philco's national convention at French Lick, predicted an all-time peak in the coming year not only for Philco but for business as a whole. In making his statement, Gubb stated that Philco's dollar volume had increased more than two-and-one-half times over the past corresponding period. General radio sales were several hundred thousand dollars over those of the year before, with a corresponding increase in autoradio. GTCtPORTA-POWER Replaces batteries in sets using IY2 volt tubes. Operates on 110 v. 60 c. Current • As easily installed and removed as batteries • Fits all battery compartments. List $7.50 ea. Your cost $4.50 ea. ATTENTION SERVICE MEN F-O.B.ChicaSo2%CashDiscount Use GTC PORTAPOWER Representatives Wanted— specify terrif or testing and cut battery cost, tory desired and trade contacts. GENERAL TRANSFORMER CORP. ZKStiZJSfc 54 RADIO TODAY