I am astonished. I am old enough to be aware of what was available to those who wanted a radio/phonograph in 1947 and never encountered a brand called Brunswick as an option. Capehart? Yes. But Brunswick as an independent entity doing anything at all except perhaps for manufacturing billiard equipment? No. Your remarks suggest, though, that Capehart-Farnsworth had acquired permission to use the name Brunswick. At this time I believe Decca used the Brunswick name for reissues of some discs issued by that company in the late 20s when they were still in the record business. Paul Charosh In a message dated 6/4/2013 9:51:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I have some pictures of a Brunswick console that is from about 1947, definitely after WWII. It is labeled as "Brunswick with Panatrope". It looks like it was actually made by Capehart-Farnsworth as it uses the Farnsworth P-56 record changer and the chassis looks like a Farnsworth AM-FM model from 1947. It even uses the FM channel numbers from 200 to 300 on the dial rather than the FM frequencies in MHz. Capehart-Farnsworth were among the few makers to use the FM channel numbers in the postwar period. So Brunswick evidently continued the use of the Panatrope moniker into the postwar period and probably continued to use it until they went out of the radio/phono business shortly thereafter. Greg Bogantz _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
