[Milsurplus] Northern Radio Company type 450 model B Forestry Set

[Hubert Miller]

Unfortunately all the links in Dave's post were unusable due to line breaks.
But to clarify the Northern Radio: do not mistake this company with one of similar name on East Coast, 
which manufactured mostly teletype equipment. Or with Northern Electric, Canada, which built home 
radios and some communications equipment. 

Northern Radio or Northern Radiotelephone, of Seattle, started I think around 1938 as some kind of 
contractor using the name Northern Electric ( as if that’s not confusing enough, too. ) I don't know what
they produced during WW2, which was kind of a watershed point for many smaller manufacturers. 
After WW2, there was "Northern Radio" and "Northern Electric", both Seattle based, and nothing to do 
with any East Coast firm with similar name. I believe 'Northern Electric' ( Seattle ) was for land-based 
radio projects, altho any actual separation of business focus is still very unclear to me.  Northern 
continued making radios up until the 1980s - exact date still unclear to me - the last SSB radio model
850 had a row of switches on front panel for setting frequency. Northern seems to have had a lot of 
small projects or forays into various fields, such  as HF aircraft radio during the AM era, and while I have
seen catalog photos of some of these sets, I have never ever seen or heard of one existing. 

The Northern boat radios of the AM years were big, heavy  things with much more robust construction
than Apelco and the others. Northern had around 5 or so different receivers which were packaged with
the transmitter in over/ under configurations altho the receivers could also be bought alone. One oddity
was the 1946  type N605E, a high - end SWL or entertainment receiver, well designed but with no BFO.

Any supposed link to TMC sounds more like the "Northern  Radio" of the East Coast. Northern Radio 
( Seattle ) never had any interest in that market. 
-Hue Miller