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Posted 1 year ago
Tamit
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My dad has this old looking radio and we’re trying to find more information about it. He wants to pass it down to me so we’re looking to find more information about it. Hoping you can help.
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Appearsto a Wards by a quick glance. You'll have to look and compare..
https://www.auctionsynergy.com/auction/3970/item/wards-airline-radio-article-no-62-2500-montgomery-ward-w1-319985/
Hi, Tamit. :-)
You have three posts of this same radio. I don't know if that was an accidental duplication, because the pictures aren't quite the same in all three posts.
Anyway, I'm going to respond to this one, especially since dav2no1 has already added a comment to it.
Yes, Montgomery Wards. I'm going to use a tinyurl link for this wikipedia link, because CW S&T software doesn't like underscore & open parenthesis & combinations:
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Airline was a store brand of consumer electronics and musical instruments originally marketed and sold by American retailer Montgomery Ward via their catalog and retail stores. Products included radios, televisions, record players, guitars and amplifiers.
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(tinyurl dot com link for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_(brand))
https://tinyurl.com/2cm8wh9s
It looks like possibly this model:
https://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=113
https://www.xjahangir.shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=544352
Here are those two submodels at the Radio Museum:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/montgomery_54wg2500a.html
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/montgomery_54wg2700a.html
Tamit, In looking at this again, I think we can eliminate submodel Airline 54WG-2700A.
Not only does the lower front panel look more plain than yours, it apparently conceals a turntable.
Here is the radio museum entry for candidate dav2no1 found:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/montgomery_64wg2500b.html
The cabinet looks remarkably similar, so I suspect the same cabinet might have housed a variety of different components.
It will take a closer look at the guts of yours to determine which Airline model it is.
Hi again, Tamit. :-)
I just thought I'd offer a bit more clarification on the record player issue, because it was confusing me, so I went back to the radio museum for a closer look.
All three of the Montgomery Wards Airline models I linked earlier make mention of a record player; however, the model first proposed by dav2no1 (64WG-2500B) has a cabinet depth of a mere 12.5 inches, scarcely big enough to accomodate a turntable that could play 10 inch 78RPM records, let alone 12 inch 33 1/3RPM records (the latter media type didn't debut until 1948, anyway).
However, one of the photographs at the listing for that model reveals some specifications text that states it has a "Phonograph jack for using external record player."
By contrast, the listing for model 54WG-2700A states that the cabinet depth is 17 inches, and indeed a couple of the images show the bottom front panel of the console tilted open to reveal a turntable installed inside.
The listing for model 54WG-2500A makes no mention of the cabinet dimensions, but the front of it looks identical to the 64WG-2500B, so I suspect that it also has only a phonograph jack to connect to an external turntable.
So, I suspect that your Airline console might be either the 54WG-2500A or the 64WG-2500B.
Of course, I could be wrong. };-)