[Vintage-Audio] Ravenswood Amplifiers (previously E.H. Scott) NOT H.H. Scott

[radioman390 at cs.com]

There were two Scott audio manufacturers, H.H. Scott and E.H. Scott.

E.H. Scott was a 1930s manufacturer of very expensive hone shortwave radios, with up to 36 tubes. The founder would travel around the world, to both poles, to demonstrate how his radios could pick up distant signals from anywhere, anywhere. It finally folded, and a group of investors bough the name rights. E.H> Scott was on Ravenswood avenue in Chicago where a successor to EHS, the famed Hallicrafters was also located.

H.H. Scott was amed after Herman Hosmer Scott out of Massachusetts and made a reputation building quality audio gear, mostly FM Tuners and amplifiers.

In the late 1950s, the E.H. Scott people opened up an audio manufacturing plant in Annapolis, MD. The actual production facility was owned by Chesapeake Instrument Corporation, but EHS was owned, AFAIK, by investors, who were promptly sued for TradeMark Infringement, and lost. They then named their comapny Ravenswood, which coincided with my high school graduation (1959).
My first fulltime job was alignment of the FM tuners and the stereo decoders (both designed by David Hafler), and later became head of QC. I used to run harmonic distortion tests on the two basic amplifiers we made, both designs either licensed by, or stolen from Leak.
They were excellent.

I'm looking for one now. Nothing has ever shown up on EBay (marbles made by Ravenswood are every where it seems...but that was the glass company, not connected).