"The Producers" Max Bialystok and Leo Blum -- one of the funniest movies ever (1968) -- Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder
Yes it is amazing that such tech can be had so cheaply at oem level.
The likes of Sony etc extort $100+ as replacement parts.
Was it Bonsai who recently stated $2.00 for oem power transformer and $0.22 for oem main filter caps.
No wonder that consumer level electronics manufacturing has died the world over in the face of Chinese/asian mega manufacturing.
Yes, that groove wrecker ceramic cart has been around since forever, standard pickup in elcheapo turntables.
Note the one piece cantilever.
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You probably won't find a Crosley outside the US since Crosley was a highly successful US manufacturer of radios from the late 20's through the 50's. They also built cars, appliances, and operated several radio stations including WLW in Cincinnati.
It seems in fashion today for someone to buy the rights to an old popular US brand name and use it to sell "stuff" in the US. RCA, Magnavox, Sylvania, Crosley........
Some history here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel_Crosley,_Jr.
Wasn't 16rpm a half speed format for spoken voice, still vinyl though. 78 was Shellac and required a different stylus diameter
Larger stylus radius required for 78's.
Phono cartridge, custom stylus, 78 rpm stylus, LP stylus, record needle
Advanced Stylus Shapes: Pics, discussion, patents.
Dan.
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Target has propagated this disease to Aus....interesting Features/care instructions.
Target - Crosley Crusier II Portable Turntable
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A little research found that there were music 16rpm records in even 7" format. I had only seen them to archive voice, I vaguely remember reading in a film history of an early attempt to sync sound to film where big 16 rpm LP's could last for a full standard 16mm reel (IIRC ~ 20 or so min).
The father of a high school friend used to race hydroplanes. He had two boats, the smaller of which was powered by a Crosley engine. The winning boats in that class were all Crosley powered. Don't remember the details since I thought the bigger and faster boat was cooler.
The bigger boat was powered by an aluminum 215 cubic inch Buick V8 from 1962. I had a turbocharged version of the same engine in a 1963 Oldsmobile. GM gave up on that engine and sold the design to British Leyland in 65, where its descendants lived on for over 40 years, and made appearances in the TR8 and several Land Rovers as the 3.5L V8.
I had a couple of old Crosley radios but sold my radio collection when I moved. I worked for Motorola for 41 years. The Motorola name comes from the words "Motor Car" and "VictrOLA", since Motorola (then known as Galvin Manufacturing) invented the car radio. The second car radio manufacturer was Crosley.
AKA, those Brits will buy any old sh*t 🙂 Unsurprisingly when bored out to 5 litres they grenaded with alarming regularity. Why we didn't buy the buick 300 design I will never know...
After being fiddled with by australian tuners Repco that little Buick V8 also helped Jack Brabham in 1966 to become the only guy to ever become F1 champion driving his own car: the Brabham-Repco T19.
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20 years ago I worked as a projectionist in a cinema that had parts of its original Vitaphone system still in storage. That included 2 rusty old Vitaphone turntables - they were huge! At least 16 inch, maybe larger. I never saw any discs, unfortunately. I tried to donate (without success) much of it to Francis Coppola and Zoetrope - since he claims his uncle invented Vitaphone.
Excellent!
I had forgotten the name turns out it was 33 1/3 and 16". And those big WE tube amps sell for more than than they originally cost.
The amps are highly sought after, for sure. They were long gone by the time I got there. What was left was the two big turntables and two 11 foot horns. Looked just like the WE 15A horns, but smaller. I really, really wanted them, but had no room for them. They got gone by the time I had room. 🙁
Is that the Motorola version of history? A bit of Googling suggests that 'first commercially successful car radio sold as a complete unit' would be more accurate, but not the first people to ever think of putting a radio in a car.tubelab.com said:
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