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. Transvision also sold a variety of accessories for television, including antennas, magnifiers, and test equipment.
Transvision continued to sell kit sets through at least 1962.
Courtesy of Harry Moore
(Courtesy of Marlin Mackey and Steve Dichter) 1962 Kit
In the early 50s, Transvision became a supplier of TV sets for hotels, motels and hospitals. In an article in the August 29, 1953 issue of Billboard Transvision claimed to have 5000 sets in 400 motels and hotels. The sets designed for hospitals had wired remote controls. In July 1962 Baruch-Foster Company bought bought a majority of the stock of Transvision. After its purchase, Baruch-Foster elected a majority of directors of Transvision. In September, the directors removed Suesholtz as president, apparently because of the operating losses sustained. Suesholtz remained as a director and began an arbitration proceeding over his right to remain as president, evidently basing his claim on an employment contract between him and Transvision. In January of 1963 Pacotronics bought the shares owned by Baruch-Foster and took control of the company. It is not known whether Transvision continued in the television business after this. Suesholtz died in 2006. His obituary mentions that Transvision established a CRT manufacturing plant in Cuba in the 50s which was nationalized when Castro took control of the country. Thanks to Joe and Cassandra Lake for much of this information.
Filene's Department Store, late 40s.
Here is a story from Walter Froehlich, W2WIQ (a Ham since 1947), describing how he assembled Transvision sets and sold them:
Transvision sets in our collection:
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