ETF - Selling Television

Get Ready to Sell Television - 1944 Book

This 1944 book was written to describe how television could be sold to the American public after World War Two. All of the sets shown are prewar, but some, such as the RCA TRK-12 with the large screen, were prototypes developed during the war

This set is a RCA TRK-12 modified with a projection screen

A General Electric HM-225

A RCA TRK-12

At the left, a General Electric HM-185, at the right on the floor a HM-171

A RCA TRK-9

Don Lee's W6XAO televised the rose bowl parade in 1940

On the left, a RCA TRK-12 (notice the lock on the front). On the right, a Philco 1938 model

A RCA TRK-12 which appears to have an enlarged screen

A General Electric HM-226

A pair of DuMont 180s

Another General Electric HM-226

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