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Interesting phono motor, any ideas?
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 12:31 pm
by ts_13
I picked up this motor a while back, the only marking I can read say "phonograph motor". THe rest is hard to read.
Any ideas?
Re: Interesting phono motor, any ideas?
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 12:37 pm
by Inigo
I think you should figure out what more is written in there... Maybe a location? A name? A patent number or date? There are two additional written lines in the photo
Re: Interesting phono motor, any ideas?
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 7:16 pm
by ts_13
It looks like "united mfg & distributing co. Chicago model 7
It's a really neat motor! Pretty intriguing.
I know its an off brand, but I am wondering what did the machine look like it came out of.
T
Re: Interesting phono motor, any ideas?
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:35 pm
by Detrbear
I have one of these motors, three spring, part of a Cecilian Melophonic (another Credenza clone), made for Montgomery Ward. Mine has the words:
UNITED MOTOR
MADE BY
UNITED AIR CLEANER CO
CHICAGO ILL USA
MODEL 7 PATS' PENDING
The plate this is stamped on has a larger "7" stamped over "5", which was another of their motors.
They advertised in Talking Machine World:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Ar ... 928-01.pdf
Their two-color ad took up a full page, look on page 47.