[Milsurplus] Pan Am radio equipment

[joldenburg2 at new.rr.com]

The big dial's are National Radio "Velvet Verniers". Pretty much a regular stocked product sold to manufacturers and the general public at the time also.
---- Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org> wrote: 

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Hue kindly observed that the power terminal strip being on the front was 
more of a 1920's attribute, which I was grateful to learn.  I was 
fixated on the big dials, which seem to have endured for ten years!

Leuteritz must have gotten a box of ten thousand of 'em in 1929 at fire sale prices... :-D 

 - Mike  KC4TOS


Mike Hanz wrote:
> Hue Miller wrote:
>   
>> The appearance is not 1929; that's a bit too early for this type; it looks 
>> more squarely right in the middle of the 1930s.
>> Except for the external accouterments, the nameplate and finish, it looks 
>> quite like a lot of 1930s regens offered in the
>> pages of Short Wave Craft magazine.
>>     
>
> I'm no expert on the regen look over the years, fer shure, but all the 
> Pan Am sets from 1929 to 1939 seem to have the same tuning dials and 
> "look" of the one in the 1929 article from Aviation magazine.  The 
> original 1929 article link I sent has a photo ( 
> http://www.oldbeacon.com/beacon/pan_american_radio_1929.htm ).  The link 
> I sent on the one in Smithsonian collection dates about 1933 ( 
> http://www.nasm.si.edu/images/collections/media/full/20030065011Cp01.jpg 
> ), and the two photos at 
> http://www.clipperflyingboats.com/pan-am/boeing-b314 are from 1939 (one 
> a color post card).  Just so I can get smarter, what did you have in 
> mind when you said, "The appearance is not 1929", Hue?
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