True, I think that RCA ad people must have realized that the name Victrola meant something, to resurrect it some twenty years after it last appeared on a Victor or RCA product. Someone out there might have a correction on this time frame, but I can't recall seeing the word Victrola on a decal under the lid of, or on a machine from about 1929 until the late forties. I have a Victor RE-57, engineered at Victor but produced in 1931, after RCA's acquisition of Victor, and it has one of the busiest decals I've ever seen, in terms of nomenclature, but the word Victrola appears nowhere on it.
It's also possible that RCA were at risk of loosing the trademark product name Victrola since it had probably already begun to be used generically, and needed to start using it again on their products in order to legally be able to maintain rights to it. Ron, that combination is likely dated from about 1948, to have FM without a three speed turntable. Andy On Aug 12, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote: > A friend of mine has a radio phono combination that has a 78 only > turntable > as I recall and an AM FM Tuner so it must be late 40s vintage, I would > think. It is labeled on the machine as an RCA Victrola. > > Ron L
