[ARC5] Aircraft Radio Industries

[gordon white]

    Has anyone on this list, presumably living in or near New England, 
ever sniffed around New Haven, Connecticut, to see if there was any 
residue of Aircraft Radio Industries, 85 St. John St.?

     They sold me odds and ends of Aircraft Radio Corp. stuff in the 
1960s, including some marked with the "M" in a circle. As far as I could 
ever determine. E.R. Jacobson, the president, bought a great deal of 
A.R.C. surplus after the war when A.R.C. needed to establish a "scrap 
value" when the wartime contracts were being tidied up.

     H.M. Kingsland, vice president of A.R.C., told me "the contents of 
the old attic were sold to Aircraft Radio Industries of New York and New 
Haven. This lot of equipment was the real old time equipment. The 
material that went from the hangar was primarily obsolete components of 
post war production items."

     "Aircraft Radio Industries has in the past had the best stock of 
old ARC parts as they tended to specialize in our old equipment."

     This may be a totally blind alley, but as also a car guy, I know 
stranger things have happened when you look in old warehouses or barns.
  - Gordon White