Classic Hifi Care

electra225 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 2:40 pm Galvin Mfg, aka Motorola started making car radios in 1930. Delco Radio was formed in 1927. I have never understood why it took from 1927 to 1936 before production of car radios ramped up at Delco Radio.

The idea of having a radio in the car while driving took a while to catch on. There was a notion that it would be distracting and cause accidents, just as we see cell phone chattering today. In the case of cell phones, I've seen enough foolishness to think the idea is correct in that context. There's too much looking to see where your thumb is going to land on the keyboard. But in the case of radios, it eventually became evident that you could listen and drive simultaneously. Most of us can reach for the volume control without even looking, right?

Well, sometimes not on my Ranger. The on-off function is a push on the volume knob, which is tiny. If I hit bump just as I reach, my hand may hit the off switch and $#@*&%!!!!!! I sometimes wonder if engineers ever have to actually use the devices they design.

Chris Campbell

hermitcrab wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:56 pm Funny I have a floor model Delco radio from 1936 it must have been around the time they went strictly into car radio?

I've got one too. Mine is a Delco R 6015 6V vibrator set, mounted in the cabinet of a Montgomery Ward Airline 62-327 6V battery set, and using an AC power supply built on the chassis of an International Radio table set using its PT and speaker field coil. Wish I knew the history of that one.....

Chris Campbell

Not sure what model mine is without digging it out to see but it is a electric model...