[Hallicrafters] The Howard Company - with the response this time

[Guido]

I own a Silvertone Precision and it is definitely a Howard 450A with a
different front panel. The Precision uses a slide rule dial, the panel has a
peculiar polished polished texture. I restored mine using the Howard 450A
manual. The position of the knobs is the same as well as chassis, tubes etc.
Nice rare set and very sensitive too.

Best 73s
Guido KP4FAR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Steffens" <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>;
<hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] The Howard Company - with the response this
time


> Ignore the first post as it had no message.
>
> Howard was a major player in both broadcast receivers and communications
> receivers prior to W.W.II. The Howard Radio Company was located at 1731-35
> Belmont Avenue in Chicago. They also built communications receivers for
> Sears under the Silvertone name in addition to radios for McMurdo Silver.
> The Silvertone Precision which is very rare is a Howard in a different
case.
> Howard also built receivers for Hallicrafters for a time in the early
> 1930's. I believe they made their last broadcast receivers around 1948 and
> were out of business by 1949.
>
> Despite the copper chassis and really neat art deco styling, these appear
to
> be really awful receivers.  The 440 performance is pretty disappointing
> despite being a 12 tube receiver. They are really neat to look at however.
> Other problems are chassis corrosion and corrosion of the slide rule dial
on
> most of the 430 through 438 series of receivers. It is rare to find one of
> these with a really clean dial. If you have ever worked on the 430-438
> series, they are quite difficult to remove from the cabinet and just as
> difficult to reassemble.
>
> During a W.W.II under a 1942 military contract, Howard manufactured the
> BC-779 version of the Super Pro SP-200 series for Hammarlund. The "made
for
> Hammarlund by Howard" wording suggests that Hammarlund subcontracted
> manufacturing to keep up with the high wartime demand. From photos, it
> appears that the Howard built Super Pro's are all in military gray, while
> some Hammarlund-built models were in the civilian black crackle finish,
with
> a military name tag added.
>
> The above is some of my opinion and some borrowed from a couple of web
> pages.  I have followed Howard because of its entanglement with McMurdo
> Silver, Silver Marshall, Silver Marshall Manufacturing (the Bill Halligan
> owned revival of Silver Marshall) and Hallicrafters   I primarily collect
E.
> H. Scott, McMurdo Silver and Hallicrafters general coverage radios.
> Currently have about 300 radios if you throw in the Zenith Transoceanics
> too.
>
>
>
> Gerry
>
>
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