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A snippet from the Victor Meeting notes stored at the Hagley Museum.

Victor was still holding 1,959 obsolete Victor Type 1 cabinets in early 1929 and apparently preferred to recover 400 square feet of warehouse space. Where is that way-back machine when we need it!

Mark

What is a type 1 cabinet?

10-50 style cabinet for the Type 1 changer.

The notes refer to the open horn Victor 1 cabinets.

The Victor 10-50 cabinets were not completely obsolete, plus 1,594 cabinets would cover more than 15,672 square feet, not 400.

Are you just having fun with us, George?

Mark

MarkELynch wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:04 pm The notes refer to the open horn Victor 1 cabinets.

The Victor 10-50 cabinets were not completely obsolete, plus 1,594 cabinets would cover more than 15,672 square feet, not 400.

Are you just having fun with us, George?

Mark

No, not really, LOL. I did wonder about the square footage though... I thought maybe it was a typo.
To my understanding the 10-50 was referred to as the Type 1 changer, hence the association. I did not fathom that they had Victor 1 cabinets sitting around that late in the game! I figured that since the "Type 1" changer was superseded by the "Type 2" in 1928, of course they'd want to unload those big cabinets.

Color me stupid.

Could be something like unfinished small horn model cabinets, piled in groups of five, one square foot per pile on the floor, or something alike. What a pity...