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Originally Posted by bgadow
It would be interesting (to me at least) to know some of the history behind Warwick. Neat that the same factory is still going, I didn't know that. Did Warwick not get its start until the fifties? Did they take over from someone else or was it an all new company?
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I don't know their history but know they made some sets for Sears in the early 70s.My boss worked for Sears in the 70s and was told to condemn them if he could because they were so unreliable. Had a lot of intermittent problems.I can confirm they were a troublesome set for being solid state.We had a console model from 1974 and it had a problem about once a year until 1982 when my mom bought a Zenith which worked flawlessly for 10 years until lightning got it. My boss fixed the Zenith and sold it.I bet it's still going.It was in the late 90s.I saw it in the bedroom of the people that bought it when I was working on their satellite dish.The picture beat the pants off that Warwick.We thought it had a pretty good picture when it worked though.Strange that it had so many intermittent problems.The module interconnects were essentially the same as Sylvania used.My grandmother's 1975 Sylvania worked for years problem free.The Sylvania never had any intermittents in it's whole life.The sound was always crapping out on that Sears-Warwick tv.My stepfather used to hit it with his fist.I fixed the Sears-Warwick tv in the late 80s after it sat for about 5 years at my grandmother's.The tube had gotten gassy and went south pretty quick.So I put a Philco tube that was in the shop in it.It played better than it had for years.Thought the sound problem was licked.The guy that bought it at the auction said the sound crapped out a couple of times after he had it for a month or 2.I never went to look at it. All the Sears tvs I have seen from 1976 on up through the 70s were either Sanyo or Toshiba chassis so I assume 1974 or 1975 was the end of Warwick making sets for Sears.