[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] War Assets Administration..West Coast sales sheets

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thekan, Paul" <Paul.Thekan at cpii.com>
Subject: [Milsurplus] War Assets Administration..West Coast sales sheets

> have a collection of War Assets Administration Released Electronic
>equipment Sales sheets that appeared to be from late 1946 on. As
>indicated on these sales sheets Remler Radio in San Frnacisco was the
>West Coast agent for WAA...

>Qty 38 RAT-1 receivers, 13.5-20.0 mcs and 20.0-27.0 mcs, with shock
>mounts and remote tuning controls and spares...NIB $75.......I think
>there where only 50 pairs of these receivers ever made

That is correct.  
Only 50 sets of RAT-1 were produced,
with two different models of receiver per set, unless there
was some unknown second run of them.  No examples
of receivers with serial numbers over 50, nor
dynamotors/remote boxes with serial numbers over 100 have surfaced
(accessories were numbered seperately from the receivers).
Same with the 12-volt version, RAT, 
which also had two different model receivers per set.
As far as is known, less than 10 of each model have survived,
making them authentically "rare," IMHO.

If 38 full RAT-1s were released in the San Fran area,
some of our northern Cal folks might want to do 
some poking around.