Postwar American Television
Admiral 29A11 Prototype ?
This may be a prototype Admiral from the late 40s. There is no Sams or Rider listing for it. Notice the two chassis on the sides, each with what appears to be a power transformer. If you have any information on this set, or speculation about it, please contact us. Thanks to Ira Grossman for sending these photos.
Chuck Azzalina located the chassis in Rider vol 2. The chassis a 30A1
(notice the 30A1 hand written on the set's tube layout). It is shown as
going in models 8C11, 8C12, and 8C13, all apparently console models.
Here is the 8C11. Notice that the cables to the two power supply chassis in this
set are long, indicating that the chassis were designed to be in a
console set, below the main chassis. Though the chassis is in Rider, the
model number doesn't appear in either Rider or Sams. The set was made in
1948.
The chassis is not a prototype, but could the entire set be a prototype?
The cabinet appears to be factory made, but it is impossible to tell if
this was a one of a kind set or if it was actually manufactured in some
quantities. Most prototypes don't have printed model numbers (on the
labels on the back of the set and on the inside of the cabinet, and have
hand written notations.
It is more likely that Admiral produced a number of these sets. Maybe
they had a surplus of chassis from the console models, and decided to
make a table model to sell them. It is fairly common for Sams and Rider
to not list all variants and models, especially if only a few sets were
made. Admiral had a lot of model numbers, often very similar sets with
slight variations in the cabinets.
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