[ARC5] Aircraft Radio Industries

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I know that Aircraft Radio Industries was in Hamden in 1993.  I bought some 
AN/ARC-1 stuff from them (50-channel kits as I recall).  The final owner 
was Sidney Arotsky.  In 1996 he was in West Haven.  I bought several thousand 
dollars worth of ATC, AN/ART-13 and BC-348 parts from him (supposedly all 
that he had left).  My understanding was that Rich Galardi in Saugus, MASS got 
all of the remaining A.R.C. stuff.  But neither he nor Sidney ever 
mentioned an "Attic".

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 05/15/2014 19:14:08 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gewhite at crosslink.net writes: 
>     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