Edison radio division 1930

[penman]

The article says that the complaint is against a Mr. Frank of "Edison Radio Stores Inc." of W125th St NYC for misuse of the names "Edison" and "Marconi" on it's products, having nothing to do with either the real Edison or Marconi or their products.

If you have a New York Times online account you can view both articles.

P.S. Cortland St., not "Court", this great radio and TV street was demolished for the WTC in 1968.

[briankeith]

Here's the totally cleaned, oiled, and waxed (not refinished) Edison cathedral radio - Lots of elbow grease getting this thing looking this good. I did not attemp to fix anything at all in the chassis as the wires are all hard as a rock, but all the tubes are there and the grille coth is 100 intact which is very hard to believe. The power cord is a badly frayed brown cloth and has a very large bakelite plug. Now I just need to find someone to restore this unit to working condition if at all possible? Any radio people out there ?????

[Uncle Vanya]

The article says that the complaint is against a Mr. Frank of "Edison Radio Stores Inc." of W125th St NYC for misuse of the names "Edison" and "Marconi" on it's products, having nothing to do with either the real Edison or Marconi or their products.

If you have a New York Times online account you can view both articles.

P.S. Cortland St., not "Court", this great radio and TV street was demolished for the WTC in 1968.

Yes, I know that it was Cortland Street, but my I- pad's spell checker disagrees with us!

[Uncle Vanya]

Here's the totally cleaned, oiled, and waxed (not refinished) Edison cathedral radio - Lots of elbow grease getting this thing looking this good. I did not attemp to fix anything at all in the chassis as the wires are all hard as a rock, but all the tubes are there and the grille coth is 100 intact which is very hard to believe. The power cord is a badly frayed brown cloth and has a very large bakelite plug. Now I just need to find someone to restore this unit to working condition if at all possible? Any radio people out there ?????

May we see a photo of the chassis?

[penman]

The article says that the complaint is against a Mr. Frank of "Edison Radio Stores Inc." of W125th St NYC for misuse of the names "Edison" and "Marconi" on it's products, having nothing to do with either the real Edison or Marconi or their products.

If you have a New York Times online account you can view both articles.

P.S. Cortland St., not "Court", this great radio and TV street was demolished for the WTC in 1968.

Yes, I know that it was Cortland Street, but my I- pad's spell checker disagrees with us!

A plague on spellcheckers!!

[briankeith]

Thank to all the posters for all the comments and background information in regards to my Edison Cathedral Radio, but not really a Thomas A. Edison radio! The research you all (and some more digging on my part) proved this was not a Thomas Edison radio but a radio sold by the Edison Radio Stores Inc. of West 125th St. in New Yrk City. They (the store owner I assume) actually and illegally used the Edison name. (and Marcooni also) BUT the radio is really in very nice cosmetic condition so does anyone know a person or a good source where I can have it safely restored to working condition again?? Thanks! Brian Keith

[Lenoirstreetguy]

Too bad they hadn't introduced a cheaper model before 1930. I've said this before that the management at Edison made the same mistake that Atwater Kent did at roughly the same time: expensive console models just as the economy contracted. Kent made his name selling inexpensive, but good quality sets all through the twenties. Just about 1929 they decided to introduce a line of more expensive consoles. Atwater Kent pulled the fat out of the fire and survived, but Edison did not. Pity, because at first Edison was doing okay. They'd bought the financially troubled Splitdorf company in order to get an RCA license and managed to retire Splitdorf's debt and all seemed to be coming nicely along when the stock market crashed.
Jim