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<p>[QUOTE="ALittleBit, post: 440171, member: 8726"]Hi Pierre, I did a quick google on 'Stromberg-Carlson' and found a couple of sites. One starts out with, ' In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone expired. Stromberg and Carlson, Chicago employees of the American Bell Telephone Company, each invested $500 to establish a firm to manufacture equipment (primarily subscriber sets) for sale to independent telephone companies. </p><p>Stromberg-Carlson was originally located in Chicago, with Carlson managing manufacture and Stromberg responsible for marketing. Stromberg-Carlson quickly established a reputation for reliable equipment and stable prices. . . etc</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure how to put a link up here but here goes:</p><p><a href="http://www.thebakeliteradio.com/page51/page51.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thebakeliteradio.com/page51/page51.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thebakeliteradio.com/page51/page51.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeaay! Hope it works. Otherwise cut and paste. Or just do the same search and you'll find them. Some sites put a hyphen between Stromberg and Carlson. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your radio must be from the 1930s by the lines. Very smart. One of the sites I saw will probably give you the model number although it should be on the radio itself if the workings are in the case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ALittleBit, post: 440171, member: 8726"]Hi Pierre, I did a quick google on 'Stromberg-Carlson' and found a couple of sites. One starts out with, ' In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone expired. Stromberg and Carlson, Chicago employees of the American Bell Telephone Company, each invested $500 to establish a firm to manufacture equipment (primarily subscriber sets) for sale to independent telephone companies. Stromberg-Carlson was originally located in Chicago, with Carlson managing manufacture and Stromberg responsible for marketing. Stromberg-Carlson quickly established a reputation for reliable equipment and stable prices. . . etc Not sure how to put a link up here but here goes: [URL]http://www.thebakeliteradio.com/page51/page51.html[/URL] Yeaay! Hope it works. Otherwise cut and paste. Or just do the same search and you'll find them. Some sites put a hyphen between Stromberg and Carlson. Your radio must be from the 1930s by the lines. Very smart. One of the sites I saw will probably give you the model number although it should be on the radio itself if the workings are in the case.[/QUOTE]
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