[R-390] Teledyne serial number contract question

[Jack Absalom]

Hi everyong.

Earlier today there was a post describing the manufacturing history 
of the Teledyne R390A contracts.   That post is copied below.

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>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:22:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael OBrien <mikobrien at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [R-390]much to Pay? Amelco/ Capehart
>To: odyslim at comcast.net, r-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>,
>         "boatanchors at mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>Message-ID: <20060316172200.6600.qmail at web53012.mail.yahoo.com>
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>Hi All
>
>I asked the same type of question a few years ago and
>this is what I was told:
>
>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


I have Teledyne Systems Corp 37856-PC-63  serial number 3976.   Does 
this mean that I might have the last Teledyne R390A manufactured?????

Interesting huh?

Jack - KF4YIO 
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