View Full Version : Ravenswood TV in Overland Park, KS


bandersen
11-10-2010, 04:50 PM
Looks like an early 16" rectangular set. Never heard of this brand before :scratch2:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ravenswood-Vintage-Television-/150518676985

David Roper
11-10-2010, 05:48 PM
I'll go out on a limb and say it looks like a 20"er.

jr_tech
11-10-2010, 06:17 PM
I also think that it might be a 20", but it is difficult to get a sense of scale here...what has me baffled is the use of the black rubber boot around the front of the tube. Could this be a Metal cone tube?
jr

bandersen
11-10-2010, 07:01 PM
I didn't realized there were 20" rectangular CRTs. Did they come out at the same time at the 16s ?

AUdubon5425
11-10-2010, 07:21 PM
I have a 20" in my '51 Magnavox - 20CP4 I think...

jr_tech
11-10-2010, 07:21 PM
I think the 20" crts were about a year later than the 16s... 1950-1951.
jr

bandersen
11-10-2010, 07:23 PM
Here's the data on the 20CP4: http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/tubes/syl59/data/crts/20CP4_2.jpg

jeyurkon
11-10-2010, 07:45 PM
If anyone has the Sams Folder 150-11, Ravenswood is a model of E.H. Scott.

John

bgadow
11-10-2010, 09:27 PM
Pulled the Sams (I have extras, in case somebody here buys it and wants a copy), this is one of those where they only picture the chassis on the cover. I guess it saw use in a lot of custom installs. The picture tubes listed are: 16KP4, 16RP4, 16TP4, 17BP4 AND 20DP4. As an explanation of the name, the address listed for Scott Radio Labs in Chicago is 4541 Ravenswood Avenue. I don't notice anything unusual about the chassis.

bandersen
11-10-2010, 09:43 PM
I wonder if this is the same building (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4541+Ravenswood+Avenue,+chicago+il&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=4541+N+Ravenswood+Ave,+Chicago,+Cook,+Illino is+60640&gl=us&ei=q2bbTPWFMoyXnAfkuYEX&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA&ll=41.964564,-87.674031&spn=0.014822,0.026157&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=41.964649,-87.674036&panoid=npLsfWkgbDO_Swfe9v7Uww&cbp=12,107.79,,0,-18.4) ?

bgadow
11-10-2010, 09:48 PM
I can picture that...the building looks like it was old even when this set was made. Perhaps Scott built that addition to the right?

John Marinello
11-10-2010, 10:36 PM
If that's an E.H. Scott set, that could very well be the polar opposite of a Muntz.

Phil Nelson
11-11-2010, 12:52 AM
E.H. Scott purists will sniff and point out that E.H. left the company during WWII. The postwar company, Scott Radio Labs, made some nice radios (I own two), but none of them had quite the same reputation as the prewar stuff.

Scott had a sort of a la carte approach to selling chassis & cabinets. They certainly offered a variety of TVs in their combos. I have spent years trying to identify the TV in my combo. It's not listed under Scott in Sams or any other docs I've found. It's a decent TV, but I don't think it has the same oh-so-yummy build quality that prewar Scott radios were known for.

Phil

RitchieMars
11-11-2010, 02:47 AM
I don't think it has the same oh-so-yummy build quality that prewar Scott radios were known for.

That's a shame. One could only imagine what might have been if the E.H. Scott legacy had continued into the post-war era, manufacturing what might have been the "Rolls Royce" of television sets. Imagine a CRT sitting on top of a chassis like this:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5990/16chassisweb.jpg

Phil Nelson
11-11-2010, 11:22 AM
Well, Radio Craftsman made a chrome-plated chassis. That's the only one I can recall, offhand.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/radio_craftsman.html

Chrome's cool, but it doesn't have quite the same impact on a TV chassis. Perhaps it's the lower component density.

Phil

jeyurkon
11-12-2010, 01:10 AM
Pulled the Sams (I have extras, in case somebody here buys it and wants a copy), this is one of those where they only picture the chassis on the cover. I guess it saw use in a lot of custom installs. The picture tubes listed are: 16KP4, 16RP4, 16TP4, 17BP4 AND 20DP4. As an explanation of the name, the address listed for Scott Radio Labs in Chicago is 4541 Ravenswood Avenue. I don't notice anything unusual about the chassis.

Is there an indication of what year it was likely produced?

John

7"estatdef
11-12-2010, 05:49 AM
The posted Sam's dates 1951.
Terry

ChrisW6ATV
11-12-2010, 02:19 PM
That's a shame. One could only imagine what might have been if the E.H. Scott legacy had continued into the post-war era, manufacturing what might have been the "Rolls Royce" of television sets. Imagine a CRT sitting on top of a chassis like this:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5990/16chassisweb.jpg
RCA made a few large console rear-projection combo sets about 1947-48 with chrome-plated radio and amplifier chassis, but the TV chassis may not have been plated.

bgadow
11-13-2010, 10:00 PM
This TV chassis sure doesn't look to have any chrome, from the photos in Sams. Pretty basic.