[Milsurplus] Northern Radio Company type 450 model B Forestry Set
Robert W Boyd
rwboyd at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 27 20:45:53 EDT 2020
FYI-Northern Electric, Canada, performed the same role as Western
Electric in the U.S.; they built all of the switching and subscriber
equipment for Bell Canada
On 9/27/2020 5:10 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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