Radio today (Jan-Mar 1939)

JOBBERS -BAGLEY RADIO COMPANY 1216 D STREET, SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. PROFITABLE LINES Trav-ler Radio & Television Corp. House radios — Autc sets — portables. Condenser Products Co. Standard Paper & Electrolytic Capacitors — Special types made to order. Attractive Prices. Write for Quotations of Your Requirements. —ELECTRIC & RADIO CO.— INCORPORATED 1910 WHOLESALE ONLY ONLY NATIONALLY ADVERTISED LINES Butte, Montana Address for mail Room 7, First National Bank Bldg. Territory covered Montana, Idaho and Wyoming r-HUDSON VALLEY ASBESTOS CORP.^ 170 CENTRAL AVE. ALBANY, N. Y. Wholesale distributors of . . . Motorola Car and Home Radios • Stromberg Carlson Radios and Sound Systems • Taco Aerials. Serving Eastern New York, Western Massachusetts and Western Vermont. — BURSTEIN-APPLEBEE CO.— 1012-14 McGEE ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Our immense stock of radio sets, parts and supplies enables you to purchase your entire needs on one order. You will find all your Nationally Known Favorites in this big book which is FREE for the asking. Practically every order is shipped the same day it is received. Write for Catalog. EVERYTHING IN RADIO! r— ADIRONDACK RADIO SUPPLY 40 CLYDE ST. BOX 403, GL0VERSVILLE, N.Y. 100% Wholesale — covering northern and eastern New York State — Radio, Photographic, and Automotive products. REPRESENTATIVES -JOHN J. KOPPLE 60 EAST 42ND ST. NEW YORK, N. Y. Manufacturer's Representative COVERING: New England, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pa. Pioneer in Rad/o T/uukf fades Majestic reorganized A complete change in directorate, increased working capital, and an aggressive operating campaign, are announced by Majestic Radio & Television Corp., Chicago. Former directors, who were with one exception, also directors of Davega Stores Corp., and N. L. Cohn, former president of Majestic, have resigned. An option has been acquired on all Majestic stock owned by Davega. Stewart-Warner Corp's Vice-President and General Sales Mgr., F. A. Hiter predicts one of the biggest volume sales years since the inception of the radio industry. Belden Manufacturing Co.. Chicago, announces, with profound sorrow the death of Joseph Congdon Belden, President of the company, on Feb. 17 at his home in Chicago. Ansley Radio Corp., New York, N. Y., has acquired the old Cornell-Dubilier plant in the Bronx, New York City, for its future manufacturing operations. The plant was originally built as a piano factory, and later used for making radio parts, so it is perfectly adapted for Ansley's radio and piano manufacturing. The Aerovox Corp., now of New Bedford, Mass., announces the opening of its New York Sale Office at 347 Fifth Ave. The 'phone number is MUrray Hill 5-3858. Sales representatives in that area will work out of the New York office. Dan Fairbanks, genial sales manager of the Merchandise Division of International Resistance Co., left February 25th for an extensive swing through the Southern and Western territory. All told, Dan expects to cover approximately 10,000 miles during a six week period. Rush of business for Continental Radio & Television Corp., on the new Admiral small sets, has necessitated the addition of a third production line in the factory. Production has been increased about 40 per cent, the daily output being raised from 2,100 to 3,000 radios since Feb. 8th. Jaivette/ TLotartf Converters FOR CONVERTING D.C. TO fl.C. • Built especially for radio and sound apparatus — capacities 110 to 3250 volt amperes — with or without all wave filters. Dynamotor construction — economical to operate — ruggedly built for years of trouble-free service — used or recommended by the largest manufacturers of radio and sound apparatus throughout the world • WHY EXPERIMENT — INSIST ON fl JflNETTE ASK FOR BULLETIN 13-1 Janette lttanufactutuuj Company 556-558 lUest lUonwe Siceet CHic^o, III. "U.S. JI. 92 i\o* l\^u Meissner Mfg. Co. have assigned Northern N. Y. State to Harry B. Segar in addition to his own territory. John O. Olsen is representing Erie, Pa. Warren E. Brennan has been appointed Admiral sales rep to cover Ohio and Michigan. New Stromb erg-Carlson distributor in most of Nebraska and part of Iowa, is the H. C. Noll Co., Omaha, Nebraska, one of Nebraska's oldest appliance concerns. David Kaufmann's Sons, Baltimore, Md., and Appliances, Inc., Cincinnati, O., have been appointed distributors for Stewart-Warner radios, according to an announcement by L. L. Kelsey, radio division sales manager. Klaus Radio & Electric Co., Peoria, 111., has issued a 1939 parts and equipment catalog. New Admiral distributors recently appointed are: Benton-Bailey Co., Inc., Richmond, Va. ; H. I. Sackett Electric Co., Buffalo; Baldwin-Hall Co., Inc., Syracuse; Kemp Equipment Co., Rochester; and W. B. Davis Electric Supply Co., Memphis, Tenn. Philco-New York shows all-year merchandise Merchandise that will be seasonable throughout the year was the theme of the showing sponsored by Philco-New York, local jobber, at the Hotel SavoyPlaza recently. Air-conditioning units, refrigerators, electric ironers, washing machines, auto-radios, home radios, and the new television receiver were shown to convince New York dealers of the value of carrying salable merchandise all year 'round. The television demonstration and the refreshment room were great attractions. Far-seeing retailers, however, found that the ice-man sells coal for a good reason; and that air-conditioning and electrical appliances are necessary adjuncts to the successful radio dealer's stock-in-trade. Channels of radio tube distribution The following figures recently compiled by National Radio Parts Distributors Association dramatically show the distribution of radio tube sales in 1938. Initial equipment 35,500,000 Export 6,750,000 Radio parts distributors to dealers 18.500,000 Set distributors to dealers 5,000,000 Retail mail order houses to consumers... 5,000,000 Chain stores to consumer 2,500,000 Wholesale mail order houses to dealers, servicemen and consumers 500,000 Manufacturers direct to dealers 500,000 TOTAL.. 74,250,000 To the dealer or serviceman worried about the competition from mail order houses and cut-rate chain stores, these figures should prove interesting. Eliminating the 35,500,000 tubes in new sets and the 6,750,000 exported, 32,000,000 tubes were left for retail to consumers. Of these, dealers and servicemen have had the lion's share, selling over 24,000,000 tubes, or about 75 per cent of the total replacement business. RADIO TODAY