This could be my birthday present!

[drmitch]

Philco refrigerator radio!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Philco-KR3-Refr...568732317QQcategoryZ38034QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[toggleswitch]

Antique radios.

Don:

Will keep that in mind. LOL

Do your collect antique radios or only ones that sound like (no pun intended) appliances?

Of course timing is everything. Jsut gave away a 1950's Motorola am/fm radio to someone who was admiring it. I would have rather kept it in the club by sending it to you.

Motorola BTW started out by trying to make record-players for cars. Yes RECORD players.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Motorola started out making radios for cars in the early 30s. That's where the name came from: MOTORola. The corporate name was Galvin Manufacturing Co.

Ken D.

 

[toggleswitch]

I stand corrected.

 

[appliguy]

RCA Victor made an auto record player .......

It was called HiWay Hi-Fi and was offered on the complete line of Chrysler Corp "Forward Look" cars (Plymouth to Imperial) from 1956 to 1961. It took a record that was about the size of a 45 and you slid it in the front of the machine. The unit played it at a slower speed than a 45 (I forget what the actual speed was). To keep the record from skipping on a bumpy road the tone arm was slightly weighted down. I have a friend who has a 1958 DeSoto Fireflite 2 door Sportsman Spring Special that has one and boy it sounds pretty good. They weren't all that popular though and that is why it lasted only 5 years before being dropped and that is also why they are a very rare and highly coveted accesory today. PAT COFFEY

 

[Kevinpreston3]

Pat here is some

I think one of the later units played 45s... Very, very strange, I submit the following URL for your pleasure.

http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html

 

[drmitch]

Auto record players

Can you imagine how much they would have skipped when driving? I remember the first CD players and they skipped pretty bad! They were probably OK when parked though.Toggle I`ve collected several but I`m keeping an eye out for the refrigerator radio for my philco frige. Most of them don`t work and I look foward to the day when I get enough stuff together to start repairing them. Here`s a pic of a club members philco fridge and radio.

 

[drmitch]

close up. The bottom of radio matches the curved top of frige.

 

[toggleswitch]

very cool people!

I remember the Motorola spiel from the time I worked in a cellular phone company.

Their advancement as a company was held-up due to the lack of success of car record players. Of course they again flourihed with the advent of mobile phones and the computers("switches") that make them possible.

 

[kenmore1978]

car record players

Aftermarket car record players were also available to fit any car. A friend of my Dad's had one