[Boatanchors] Little Giant

[jeremy-ca]

I'll try this again, even tho Im using plain text the QTH robot said it was 
HTML so Im stripping off some stuff that came from Greg.


It seems like trademark and name infrigement was the rage back then. There 
was also a Metro Electric Co in Chicago building radios from 1926-28 using 
the Metrodyne label.

The search goes on. If someone has a web site I can send some pix. It uses a 
pair of those odd 3L two pin mercury vapor rectifiers mounted on a lower 
shelf. The glow off the wall is a conversation piece.

Carl
KM1H


I found two references to "Little Giant" in the 1920's - maybe earlier than 
your set, though."Little Giant" was used as a trade name by Metro Electric 
Co., Newark NJ, in 1924, according to the McGraw-Hill trade directory 
published that year.There was a 1925 model, a three dial battery set, called 
the "Little Giant" made / sold by the Q. T. Radio Products Company, East 140 
Park Avenue, Orange NJ.  Q. T. appears in trade directories for 1924 and 
1925, and in Radio Retailing's listing of Receiving Sets for 1926-1927.  The 
1925 set was picked up by Ralph Langley (later McMahon) in the "Radio 
Collector's Guide...".Hope this info is at least a start for you,Greg