[MRCA] Meissner E H Scott RBO Variant?

[Christopher Bowne]

Just saw Chuck Teeter's article in the new ER magazine re the 1945 Meissner 3 
band receiver  he recently acquired.  Surprised the article made no mention of 
how the radio is obviously a slightly remade E.H. Scott RBO shipboard receiver!  
Wonder of Meissner was building RBOs under subcontract for the Navy and got 
stuck with a lot of inventory for them at the end of the war, or perhaps they 
bought excess RBO inventory from Scott?  I have seen another odd receiver, on a 
few occasions, believe it was made by National, with a mil spec R number which 
was obviously based on the Scott SLRM chassis, except that it used 7 pin 
miniature tubes, the sockets for which were mounted on metal plates bolted into 
the original larger octal socket chassis holes of the Scott!  Was definitely a 
factory mod, not a ham homebrew adaptation.  Frequency coverage was virtually 
identical to the SLRM.  Anybody know anything about that set?

Chris, AJ1G 
Stonington, CT