[R-390] Teledyne, Amelco , Imperial Story

Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:51:02 -0700 (PDT)

Gentlemen?

Here is the story on the Amelco/Teledyne connection.

The Amelco story starts with Teledyne.  In the fall of 1960 Dr. Henry Singleton
and Dr. George Kozmetsky left Litton Industries and formed Teledyne Inc.
Teledyne's first acquisition was to purchase a small electronic "build to
print" manufacturing company in Los Angeles named Amelco, which was located on
Panama Street in Culver City. Amelco was the first operating company of
Teledyne. They bid and won contract 35064-PC-62 for the manufacture of R-390A's
in late in early 1962. The first units were manufactured and shipped with the
name Amelco on the name tags. Before all units on this contract were shipped,
the name of the company was changed to Teledyne Systems Corporation and the
remaining units under this contract were shipped under that name. 

     In the meantime, another Los Angles area company named Imperial won
contract 37856-PC-63 to make R-390As.  Teledyne acquired Imperial shortly
thereafter, and all units shipped under the names Amelco, Teledyne Systems
Corporation and Imperial were manufactured and shipped from the plant on Panama
Street in Culver City. According to my research, about 7600 radios were built
by Teledyne under the three company names and two orders.  

In summary, the Teledyne production of R-390As looked something like this (hope
the tabs don't mess it up):

Badge Name			Order No. 		High s.n. noted

Amelco				35064-PC-62		2540		
Teledyne Systems Corp		35064-PC-62		3642
Imperial			37856-PC-63		3022
Teledyne Systems Corp		37856-PC-63		3976

Total Production, at least 7619 sets.

Hope this helps.

73 Tom N5OFF

--- Michael OBrien <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have 2 r-390a receivers with the same order # but 2
> different companys The order # is 35064-pc-62 The
> companys are Amelco (# 1453) and Teledyne (# 2702)
> The Amelco was bought from a ham and the Teledyne came
> from fair radio. It looks the Amelco has a Amelco rf
> deck with Teledyne pc-63 audio and PS
> The Teledyne unit is mixed Would anyone know about
> this order # ?
> 
> Also does anyone know how to remove or fix the RTTY
> control on the BFO (my Amelco) The black part with the
> numbers dial is loose and turns when  you rotate the
> knob
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
> 
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