[Jeffhs]

Philco made a blonde wood-cased table model radio back in the '50s (don't recall the model number offhand) which had the special services band. The tuning scale for the SS band was directly below that for BC, but the special services range only had icons for the different services (police, fire, civil defense [Conelrad], etc.), no actual calibrations in MHz (Mc. when this radio was new). The band selector was on the rear apron of the chassis. Philco's engineers must have thought most people wouldn't listen to the special services range that much, otherwise that switch would have been on the front panel, near the tuning knob or between the volume pot and the tuning control. Several other makes of radios made in the late '40s and early '50s also had this band, so Philco was not the only manufacturer to have made radios with the extra range. I don't recall who the other companies were off the top of my head, but there were a handful of them between about 1949 and 1956-'57.