Fairbanks-Morse
Fairbanks-Morse started selling radios in 1934 in Chicago, in the plant that originally housed the Audiola Radio Co., which Fairbanks-Morse purchased. They moved radio production to Indianapolis in 1936. In 1939, the Indianapolis plant burned down, and Fairbanks-Morse ceased radio production in the USA. They did continue to produce radios and later televisions in Canada.
Federal
Founded in Buffalo, New York, in December 1908 by E.G. Hubble as a telephone system. In the early 1920s, as consumer radio broadcasting boomed, the company shifted focus to building high-quality receivers. The company rebranded as the Federal Radio Corporation in 1926.
Freed
The Freed brand of radios spans the vintage Freed-Eisemann company of the 1920s and the later Freed Radio Corporation. Founded by Arthur Freed, the brand pioneered home radios, ventured into high-quality console models, and successfully navigated the transition to Frequency Modulation (FM) radio before fading out after the 1940s.
Freed-Eisemann
The Freed-Eisemann brand, founded in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, was a major pioneer of consumer radios during the 1920s boom. Famous for manufacturing high-end receivers under the Neutrodyne circuit, the company survived several bankruptcies, reemerged as a premium radio-phonograph maker in the 1940s, and eventually faded out in the 1950s.
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Knockdown Neutrodyne |
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36 (1934) |
78 or 79 |
FE-15 (1925) |
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FE-52 |
NR-5 (1923) |
NR-6 |
NR-7 (1925) |
NR-9 (1927) |
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NR-12 (1924) |
NR-20 (1924) |
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5F-4 Masterpiece (1925) |
5F-4 |
5F5 Masterpiece (1925) |
6F-5 Masterpiece |
545 (1934) |
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655 Masterpiece (1937) |
675 Masterpiece (1934) |
Equaphase G1 |
Masterpiece (1924) |
Masterpiece |
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Masterpiece (1925) |
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