[Milsurplus] Air King ?

[Hubert Miller]

Thanks! That's where I'd seen the name!
BTW, I would have fired Ed King too!
-Hue

>A company called Air King from Brooklyn, NY manufactured both my TCS-14 receiver and transmitter.

Andy K0AJL

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bruce Gentry <ka2ivy at verizon.net<mailto:ka2ivy at verizon.net>> wrote:





Air King was an in-house trademark of appliances, radios, and TVs sold by Firestone Tire stores.  Just like the Montgomery-Ward Truetone and Western Auto Airline brands, they were usually built by contract manufacturers who  didn't sell anything under their own name. Sears Silvertone was also contract for some time until Sears bought Warwick Electronics  to become their in-house builder.

      Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
On 9/2/17 6:23 AM, John Schmitz wrote:
There was a King Radio Company but I'm not sure if they were a WW2 manufacturer. The owner of King Radio Company, Edward J. King, started out with a company called Communications Accessories Company (CAC) that produced coils that Art Collins needed. Collins bought CAC in 1955 and Ed King continued to run the company as a Collins subsidiary for many years. Art Collins fired Ed King, who was a pilot, for an incident that occurred while Ed king was flying a group of engineers to a meeting. Ed King hit rough weather and climbed above it to avoid it. However, the plane was not pressurized and there were not enough oxygen masks for all those aboard. The flight arrived safely but as soon as Art Collins heard about it he had Ed King fired. Ed King then started his own avionics company, King Radio Company and was in direct completion with Collins avionics. The company became a top competitor with Collins in the high performance business aircraft field. Ed King considered the firing from Collins a major turning point in his life and he started King Radio Company.

John Schmitz
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