The talking machine world (Jan-June 1928)

1928-1929 Radio Lines Not Exhibited at the Annual Trade Show Wide Variety of Radio Products for the Coming Season Show Decided Tendency Toward AC Operation and Improvement in Cabinet Designs Alden Mfg. Co., Springfield, Mass. Featuring the No. 922 Connectorald for putting the 222-tube into batteryoperated sets, providing for cutting down the voltage from six volts to three volts on the filament, $1.50. Balsart Mfg. Co., Chicago 111. Balsart reproducer, $35. G. H. Bear Furniture Co., Allentown, Pa. Radio cabinets featuring an approved cabinet for the Grebe Synchrophase AC 6. Browning Products Corp., Ogden, Utah. Browning Antenn-a-'Liminator. Cable Supply Company, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. Radio tubes, transformers, condensers and tone niters. Consolidated Battery Co., Buffato, N. V. ABC power pack with adaptei for AC tubes. Decatur Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Decatui* enclosed cone speaker, one model designed for installation in manufacturers' consoles; another foi retail purposes in walnut cabinet at $35. D.idlo Mfg. Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Transformer, choke and magnet coils. \lso magnet and antenna wire. A" sup France Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O. battery eliminator and "B power si ply. 1). H. Frltts * Co., Chicago. IU. Fritts AC phonograph consolette ot solid walnut, sliding draw equipped with an electrically operated turntable, shelf on stretcher designed for cabinet speaker, accommodates all standard makes of radio receivers ; also Fntts DeLuxe console designed to take an air-chrome standard cone or dynamic speaker, adaptable for all standard makes of receivers. Herald Electric Co., Inc., New York, N. Y. Herald Gothic speaker, $25. Jaeger Research Labs., Inc., Weehawken, N. 3. Radio tubes. Langbeln-Kaufman Radio Co., New Haven, Conn. Elkay radio receivers, standard compact AC operated $132.50; Standard DeLuxe Spinet table with air-chrome speaker, $195; Junior chassis, AC operated, $90. Ottawa Furniture Co., Holland, Mich. Ottawa cabinet speaker, model 55, $35; Ottawa speaker table, model 340, $35. Pathe Phonograph & Radio Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y. Dynamic loud speakers' cone-type magnetic speakers and the Pathe Cathedral speaker. Pierce-Airo, Inc., New York, N. Y. AC-171 chassis, AC operated, finished in bronzed lacquer with panel finished in natural grain burl walnut. Plymouth Furniture Co., Milwaukee, Wis." Radio furniture and consoles : R 18-D, $42.50; S 18, $37.50; L 18. $32.50, all for the Radiola 18; model AVD for AC operated speakers, without speaker, $50. with cone speaker, $65, with dynamic speaker. $100; K 37 for Atwater Kent 37 and 38 receivers, $30 ; also varied line of furniture for other standard receiving sets. Schubert Tri-Harmonic Co., New York, N. Y. Electric phonograph and radio combination. Stanley Engineering, Inc., Boston, Mass. Stanley cage aerial. Sonora Phonograph Co., Inc. Displaying at the Sonora offices, 64 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Sonora products of the current season. Full details of Sonora 1928-1929 line will be announced shortly. Stettner Phonograph Corp., New York, N. Y. Complete line of Stenola Stettner Model 80 radio tables and cabinets featuring model No. 60 with RCA 100 speaker A, for Zenith and Kolster receivers : also model No. 80, equipped with RCA 100-A speaker to accommodate standard radio receiving sets. Stromberg-Carlson Tel. Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y. Private showing of Stromberg-Carlson radio receivers at Stromberg-Carlson No. 635 the Blackstone Hotel, featuring the new No. 635 AC receiver, using three stages tuned and neutralized (Hazeltine patents) radio frequency amplification, including specially designed Stromberg-Carlson tuned antenna stage, detector and two stages of audio-amplification, all totally shielded ; seven tubes, tunes with single illuminated station selector, phonograph jack allows use of magnetic pick-up device for electrical reproduction of records ; handsome cabinet design. American walnut. Super-Craft Products Corp., New York, N. Y. Super-craft speaker, pedestal model, $28; table model, $19.50; also Super-craft tubes. Supreme Instruments Corp., Greenwood, Miss. Complete line of service instruments, featuring Supreme model 100A radio service instrument and traveling case, $98.50; Supreme model 80A radio service instruments, store case, $S9.50. Trlco Products Corp., Buffalo, N. Y. Trico-Cameron Antenna. Trimm Radio Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111. Entertainer cabinet speaker cone model. No. 58, $25 ; cone chassis model, No. 48. Ultratone Mfg. Co., Chicago. 111. Stettner Model 60 for Radiolas 17 and 18; model No. 60 Ultratone Model 8 Ultratone speakers, including the "Supreme" model No. 12, walnut metal Ultratone Model 12 side with front, back and frame of wood, grill of gold, forty-eight-inch air chamber, $22.50; No. 8 table speaker, finished in walnut with the Ultratone air-column, $15. Universal Cabinet Co., GreenviUc, O. Radio consoles and tables. Van Duren Co., Chicago, 111. Allmetal radio cabinets, speaker housings, panels and sub-panels. Van Home Co., Inc., Franklin, O. Complete line of radio tubes. Vltalitone Radio Corp., New York, N. Y. Dynamic speaker enclosed In furniture model which may be used as small table and may be enlarged by lifting one or two of the side wings; other models in various types of housings. Workrite Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O. Workrite radio receivers, AC operated, model 18, seven-tube table model ; model 28, seven-tube console ; model 38, nine-tube table model ; model 48, nine-tube console; also enclosed cone speaker. Art Specialty Co., Chicago, 111. Complete line of radio tables and cabinets featuring a console table and bench designed to conform with the new Radiola 18; Spanish design, finished in antique gold and polychrome with lower shelf to accommodate radio speaker; also console table and bench designed to conform with Crosley sets of Spanish design, finished in antique gold and polychrome. Kellogg Distributors Attend Sales Convention in Chicago Showing of Laboratory Models of the 1928 Kellogg Line a Feature of All-Day Session — Four New Models Demonstrated to Distributors — Have Wide Price Range . ^ On Monday, May 7, a group of Kellogg radio distributors and jobbers gathered at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, in Chicago, for an all-day session. The meeting was called by J. K. Utz, sales manager of the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., for an initial showing of laboratory models of the new Kellogg line for 1928. Details of the line were given to the distributors present. Four new models were shown, ranging in price from $169.50 to $775.00. The lowest priced model is a table-cabinet housing, a typical Kellogg chassis, completely shielded, and made with the same care and workmanship as the higher priced models. A medium sized console was shown to retail at $375. This console has several exclusive Kellogg features and met with approval on the part of the distrib utors. The third model shown was a large console in walnut, equipped with the Kellogg long air-column reproducer. This console is similar in general design to last year's model 510, but includes many refinements, the most important of which is a new type of tuning control which replaces the knobs with attractive levers. The piece de resistance of the eyening was the showing of the new Kellogg de luxe model which the distributors declared to be one of the most beautiful examples of cabinet work they have yet seen. The morning session at the Edgewater Beach Hotel was devoted to discussion of sales promotion and advertising by Mac Harlan, advertising manager of the Kellogg organization. After an informal luncheon the entire group of distributors were taken to the Cubs' Park, where Chicago trounced the Phillies. After the demonstration a seven-course dinner was served in the West Room of the Edgewater Beach. W. L. Jacoby, president of the Kellogg Co., presided, and told the distributors of Kellogg's sales plans for 1928. Fred Oliver, of the Boley-Oliver Co., New York distributors for Kellogg, in a brief talk, expressed his appreciation for the courtesies shown by the Kellogg Co., and predicted that the coming year would show the greatest growth in Kellogg business since the inception of radio. After his talk an adjoining room was thrown open and the new Kellogg models were placed on exhibition. The details of each model were explained by George Eaton, chief engineer. Tuesday, May 8, private sales conferences between distributors, and Mr. Utz were held in the offices of the Kellogg Co. Kellogg distributors from every part of the country were present and recorded themselves as exceptionally well pleased with Kellogg sales prospects for the coming season. A. and M. Gottlieb have opened a new music store near the Post Office, Muskogee, Ala. 74