View Full Version : My new Westinghouse radio


LADR
04-23-2017, 04:53 PM
I got this from a estate sale from the house its was sitting in since new. A bonus with this radio is that the last owner kept it repaired and still works great but with a little hum. On the bottom is a date of 12-5-1946.

Donny
04-24-2017, 07:11 AM
Really nice find you have there!

DavGoodlin
04-24-2017, 07:50 PM
Very interesting how many postwar models still used wood. I never saw a Westy like that and they were made upstate here. What tubes does it use?

dieseljeep
04-24-2017, 08:17 PM
Very interesting how many postwar models still used wood. I never saw a Westy like that and they were made upstate here. What tubes does it use?

The radio looks like a pre-war model. Their pre-war models were made by several manufacturers. This one looks, like it could be an RCA built set.
If the original poster would include a model number, it could be looked up in Riders.
Once, Westinghouse was broke up with GE and RCA, they seemed to contract with other firms to build their products. :scratch2:

MadMan
04-29-2017, 11:06 PM
Very interesting how many postwar models still used wood.

Perhaps the availability of petroleum and coal were too limited to justify using plastic? Steel was in short supply too.