[Milsurplus] Re: GRC-9 manufacturers

[Hue Miller]

Lewyt 
Teleking
Telefunken
Maxwell Electronics Corporation
Avco Corporation

Avco bought Crosley late 40's or early 50's.  I have an RT-77A on a '51 Order 
that says something like "Crosley, a Division of Avco" or words to that 
effect - the radio is over in my storage building.  By the late 50's/early 60's the 
nameplates just say "Avco".  [ Robert Downs]

I just cut and pasted these from the posts so i (at least) could have the whole
list in one place.
Maxwell surprises me. I have never seen one. For some reason most of mine
seem to be Lewyts. It seems somewhere back i heard someoned deprecate
Lewyt quality but i don't recall the specifics.
Avco had to be the "last manufacturer", or at least re-builder, since when FAIR
bought that last big load from them, some of the sets were unfinished, in the
process of rebuild.
And say, wasn't that FAIR load of GRC-9s one for the milsurplus history articles?
Before that, prices on GRC-9s tended to be kinda high. Or you got it thru Army
MARS. Then FAIR's catalog appeared with what seemed a jillion of a fine, very 
practically usable milsurplus radio, and at a very reasonable price. It was almost
a reprise in miniature of the glory days of the big diposals of the late 1940s.

I had always thought Rauland was the only maker of the BC-1306. I suppose that
was because of their glamorous 2-page ad in Radio News, touting the 1306 and
its role in the CBI war theatre.
Hue Miller