Over the years, Victor and later, RCA used the names "Victrola" and "Electrola" sort of interchangeably. I think that they realized in the thirties and forties that "Victrola" was such a widely known name, that it became generic, like "Frigidaire" was for tht family ice box. RCA bought Victor in 1929, and the first phono combinations were "Victor Radio with Electrola". A year or so later, they had a line with "Radio Automatic Electrola", the idiot record changer that changed only 10 inch records, and poorly at that. But, on some later phono combinations, and on the attachment record players, the decal: "RCA Victrola" apeared. They had a series of record players in 1936, to include the R95, R96 and R99 that didn't have the Victola name on them, but had the nomenclature on the service notes. The later versions of the R93 and R100 attachment players had the "RCA Victrola" decal on them. I have one of the R99 players, and it's called "High Fidelity Electrola" in the service book, but not on the cabinet anywhere. Just checked the RCA 1942 model V-225 with the over-under changer, and it has the "RCA Victrola" decal on it. It's one of those things you can't write any rules about!
> [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/12/2006 11:41:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victrola usage on RCA products > > There was the little RCA "R100 Victrola Attachment" of 1939, a single play > turntable that plugged into a radio. > > Phil Stewart > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
