[JMS] Millen Catalogs - New to our website

[W1LSB - George]

Wow Bob.....just plain WOW.  The reason it never worked is because there was nothing in QST that Millen could copy, although I bet some of the circuitry was probably purloined.

73, George - W1LSB

-----Original Message-----
From: james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert A Sullivan
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 2:20 PM
To: Don Buska - The Radio Lab Works; The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector
Subject: Re: [JMS] Millen Catalogs - New to our website

Don,

Excellent. You might recall I have both the -201 and -501 here, both of which I’m trying to restore. Quite a task since I have NO documentation. The information in the catalog you mention has more data than I have found elsewhere - HI.

You might enjoy this short video I took of the dial pointers in operation. It took hours to make it work! These receivers are very “mechanical.” Neither receiver I have was 100% complete. It’s not clear to me that one EVER worked.

https://youtu.be/s_tVRq0waZk
Millen Receiver Dial Pointers
youtu.be

73, Bob

> On Mar 15, 2023, at 1:49 PM, Don Buska - The Radio Lab Works <don at radiolabworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings Fellow Millen Society members,
> 
> The topic today is Catalogs.  I just added a new category to our jamesmillensociety.org website for viewing and downloading James Millen catalogs.  This represents everything from my personal collection.  Naturally I would love to fill in as many blanks as possible.  One of my favorites is the 1947-48 Communications Receivers & Transmitters catalog.  This is the only one, I think, that has the never released DFP-201 and DFP-501 receivers.  As you will notice this is only a grayscale scan of the original.  The reason is when I visited the AWA Annex back in 2001, I had the opportunity to go through their collection of catalogs, in particular interest was naturally James Millen. They have the original of this catalog and were very kind to let me use their photocopier to make this grayscale copy.  Note to our JMS members who live in the AWA Museum (& library) area, maybe you can swing by and borrow some of their Millen Catalogs, including the aforementioned, and properly color scan then for inclusion on our website - subtle hint, hi.
> 
> What is amazing to me is that the James Millen Manufacturing Co. was formed in 1939.  And in the 1940-41 catalog is a very extensive list of available components already in production. That little 2nd floor facility in Malden must have been humming along at full steam in those early years.  As you will discover so far my catalogs jumps from that initial 1940-41 all the way to 1946.  That's one area I'd like to expand and also discover if there are any non-component related catalogs from those early years of the company.
> 
> Hope our member can help fill in the blanks.  Full color scans would be most desirable.
> 
> 73
> Don N9OO
> 
> 
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