First Ad for color in 4/26/1954 Life Mag.

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Going by surviving sets those numbers don't seem accurate. There's 178 known surviving CT-100s, 30 Westinghouse H840CK15s, and only 6 Admiral C1617As.
If survival rates were identical there'd be 2x as many surviving Westinghouse sets and 6x as many Admirals...I can believe that big of a difference in the Westinghouse, but the Admiral would need to be infamous for a recall, bad reliability (compared to the other sets), or something to explain a production that high and survival rate that dismal.

There are hand made prototypes with the same or better number of surviving sets than the Admiral.

RCA had the highest production numbers for the CT100. Admiral, Westinghouse and RCA 15 inch color sets in 1954 all had 6 month productions prior to shutting down for the 19 inch and 21 inch models. Westinghouse ended H840CK15 about end of June 1954. I’ve attached links to Westinghouse 1954 color production line. (Date verified)

Are we to believe Westinghouse only produced 2.7 color sets a day with 275-300 employees on the line?

Admiral had sets all over the country in dealer stores. Most color sets (all three) sat idle as NOS in warehouses. Stores that had them as late as 1957 sold at steep price reductions, $199. Why would the public want to buy a 15 inch color set when they knew they could buy a 19 inch Moto, Westy or a 21 inch color RCA in Fall and Christmas time 1954, for less money.

You can’t go by sets found, you go by production time. When I acquired my Westy H840CK15, there were only 19 in the ETF database. Now there are 32.

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