There was an article about this in the late Vacuum Tube Valley magazine. Eric Barbour, who used to contribute to them often, is quite well-informed on both ye olde dayes and modern tube production details.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:43 PM
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I loooove this list!!!! Where else are ya gonna learn this sort of stuff . Roger Kulp
phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RCA, even after it bought Victor, sourced many of its tubes from other
vendors. You'll see tubes made in Holland and Germany, rebranded RCA. It
came down to who had which tube type up and running on their lines. They
didn't like switching over production from one type to another. And from
what I understand of tube manufacturing, most all tube manufacturers in the
USA bought their tube parts from Sylvania, especially cathode assemblies and
grid wire. The manufacturing of the individual parts required much greater
attention to detail than the assembly of the tubes.
Phillip
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Breneman"
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Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.
--- Michael Shoshani wrote:
You know what? I completely forgot about that. Did they include radios? Or was that left for a third party installation?
RCA provided the radios to Victor to install in the machines; but before RCA bought Victor, RCA didn't have much of any manufacturing capability to speak of. Most RCA-badged equipment was acutally manufactured by GE or Westinghouse and marketed be RCA.
Ironically, much like with the licensing arrangement with Thompson today.
David Breneman david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
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