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Pooley Co.; Philadelphia

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Name: Pooley Co.; Philadelphia    (USA)  
Abbreviation: pooley
Products: Model types
Summary:

The Pooley Company, 1600 Indiana Avenue, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

History:
According to Pooley Company they started making radio cabinets in 1924 and were the first exclusively designed cabinets of the radio industry. One could even buy Atwater Kent radios in a Pooley cabinet. An example is a "breadboard" model 10 in a cabinet similar to model 112-R-2 (Collection John Terrey). The Pooley "floating horn" loudspeaker was praised even by Mr. A. Atwater Kent.

Some Pooley radios were made by Silver-Marshall/Gilfillan Bros. Inc. or American Bosch. An example for a American Bosch is model 28 (from 1928) in a Pooley cabinet model 7400 (Collection Richard Arnold) which is model 7300 with a stretcher for an Atwater Kent loudspeaker. An example for Silver-Marshall is a 8-tube superheterodyne in 1930, called the "Bearcat".

Since Gilfillan was licensed by RCA, the company did contract with various nonlicensed companies, like Troy, Ravenscroft, Breting etc. We believe that Pooley got at least some sets assembled there.

Nonlicensed companies could design their circuits, order parts, put in a team of people at the Gilfillan plant to assemble the parts onto a chassis, test the radio and have an RCA license attached to the chassis. They could take chassis and speaker and put them in a cabinet of their own.

1928 Pooley was located at the Indiana Avenue in Philadelphia, using a whole city block. Pooley claims in April 1929 that hey have made 600,000 Pooley radio cabinets. They had by then 47 years of experience in designing and producing fine furniture.


Some models:
Country Year Name 1st Tube Notes
USA  28 7700 Radio Cabinet   7700 Radio Cabinet de Luxe. Price without radio or speaker. 
USA  28 7600 Radio Phonograph   Spanish Chest style Radio Phonograph 7600. All electric. Price without radio or speaker. 
USA  28 7400 Radio-Desk   7400 Radio Desk. Price with ink well and large desk blotter, but without radio or speaker. 
USA  28 10 Record Chest   Record Chest Model 10. Holds six record albums. Price without albums 
USA  28 7900 Radio-Phonograph   Radio-Phonograph de Luxe. Automatically plays 10 records. Equipment includes 8 record albu... 
USA  28 7800 Radio-Cellarette   Radio-Cellarette de Luxe. Completely equipped with cut glass and silverware, Humidor (for ... 
USA  28 7300   Radio Desk. Price with ink well and large desk blotter, but without radio or speaker. 
USA  28 7200   Console Radio Cabinet. Price without radio or speaker. 
USA  28 7500 Spanish Chest Radio   Spanish Chest Radio Cabinet. Price with card and pipe racks, but without radio or speaker. 
USA  26 2000-R-2 "Arm Chair"   The "Arm Chair" Model 2000-R-2 was available with two different Atwater Kent radios:with 2... 
USA  26 1700-R-2   The Pooley 1700-R-2 Chippendale Console was available with three different Atwater Kent Ra... 
USA  26 2200 Cabinet Speaker   Pooley Cabinet Speaker Model 2200. Built-in patented Pooley floating horn with Atwa... 

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Further details for this manufacturer by the members (rmfiorg):

ATWATER KENT MODEL 20 Pooley Cabinet Logotbn_atwater_kent_model_20_pooley_cabinet_8154.jpg

  

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