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Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth
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| Name: | Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth (USA) |
| Abbreviation: | capehart |
| Summary: |
Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, Indiana: Trade name Amperion. Founded 1927, went into bankrupty in march 1939 and was taken over by Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. Farnsworth kept using the trade name Capehart for some products and later changed even its name to Capehart-Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. See under Farnsworth. |
| Founded: | 1927 |
| Closed: | 1939 |
| History: |
Homer Earl Capehart (1897 - 1979) held a variety of jobs, selling milking machines, tractors, plows, and popcorn machines, finally working his way up to sales manager for Holcomb and Hoke Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| Country | Year | Name | 1st Tube | Notes |
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| USA | 32 | 200 old | 58 | "Radio Collector's Guide 1921-1932 lists a Capehart model 200 for AC with an a... |
| USA | 35/36 | 406D Adam Ch= W-877, W-867, W-868, 16-E | 6K7 | 406D Adam Cabinet: The Capehart model series 400 with Adam cabinet were made in two c... |
| USA | 32/33 | 1 (Superhet) | 58 | Capehart model 1 (Superhet) Most probably there are two different model 1: On page 20... |
| USA | 31/32 | 10 with "10-12C" changer | See also at Rider's where you find a "model 10" and a "model 12C&quo... | |
| USA | 31 | Amperion 100-18H not Amprion Automatic Coin-Operated Phonograph | The Capehart Amperion Model 100-18H is an automatic Coin-Operated Phonograph, sometimes... | |
| USA | 32 | Amperion 100 1/2 | Coin operated phono. | |
| USA | 32 | Amperion 101 | Coin operated phono. | |
| USA | 32 | Amperion 101 1/2 | Coin operated phono. | |
| USA | 33/34 | 103 Cosmopolitan Ch= Z, W-904 | 78 | The Rider's schematic W-904 for models 103, 104 Cosmopolitan, chassis "Z"... |
| USA | 33/34 | 104 Cosmopolitan Ch= Z, W-904 | 78 | The Rider's schematic W-904 for models 103, 104 Cosmopolitan, chassis "Z"... |
| USA | 30/31 | Amperion 110 | Coin operated phono. | |
| USA | 38/39 | 110G Panamuse Ch= W-940 | 6K7 | 110G Panamuse The model 110G is probably the first model of the "100 series"... |
Further details for this manufacturer by the members (rmfiorg):
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Capehart-Farnsworth timeline: 400 series Cabinets
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Ernst Erb
24.Sep.12 |
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Here you have the overview about the different main parts that form a series 400 model. In fact this comprises also series 300, 200 and 100, the so called DeLuxe models with turn-over mechanism. This family of all "400 series" started in 1931 and was stopped in 1950. The intention is to show different threads for cabinets, Escutcheons/scales/knobs, record changers, tuner chassis and amplifier chassis, loudspeakers and pick-ups. For more or other information there is the general thread Capehart Radio-Phonographs for the 1930s and 1940s.
Capehart-Farnsworth timeline: The series started for the season 1931/32 without "season suffix" and followed with A, B, etc. After WW2 there were only two prolonged seasons, N and P, for the turn-over record changers. You overlook here the full lifetime of them inclusive the radios only with the same chassis.
Suffixes after the season suffix: First saison: 1931/32 - no suffix
Early series 100 with probably Amperion changer, like 101, Cosmopolitan 103 and Cosmopolitan 104. A = 1932/33
B = 1933/34 The 300 series were started. New is also the 1600 series "Plain Cabinet" for concealed installation.
C = 1934/35
D = 1935/36 A series of radio only consoles was started with the chassis of 300 series and an other with the chassis 400 series was started - each with two different cabinets. This new type lasted only for two seasons (two different chassis).
E = 1936/37 500 series were started (no picture) 200 series were started 203E Georgian - not in Book Baumbach. (no picture)
George Epple:
F = 1937/38
G = 1938/39 The first series 100 (only with 110G) was called Panamuse. From about season K, the drop type changer was introduced for (2 digit name) Panamuse and the models with the turn-over changer became the suffix "DeLuxe".
H = 1939/40 In March 1939 Capehart went into bankrupty and parts of it were bought by Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. In that year Farnsworth also started its own production. For some products the brand Capehart was kept.
K = 1940/41 (there is no I or J)
M = 1941/42 (there is no L)
N = 1945-48 There are two YouTube videos, 400N and 400N1 but we believe it is only meant the series 400N and with the cabinets there sould be other numbers. We hope to be able to clear this later.
P = 1948-50 - last series (there is no O)
In 1951 Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation was purchased by International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT). |
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Ernst Erb
10.Oct.12 |
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On the cabinets of 400 series models there can be found printings or labels of either a distributor and/or cabinet manufacturer. By listing the known distributors we can decide what the inscription is ...
Cabinet manufacturer for Capehart consoles of the 400 series Now "Lyon & Healy Harps Inc." is concentrating on excellent harps. In their history they don't mention Capehart cabinets or other music instruments being made by them. But at least George W. Lyon patented a cottage upright piano in 1878 and it was sold under the Lyon and Healy name. Lyon retired in 1889; Healy died in 1905. For 1913 there is a Lyon & Healy piano catalog where they state themselves as "makers" and show a big manufacture building for Lyon & Healy pianos. In Wabash avenue they had "the world's greatest music house".
Distributors for Capehart-Farnsworth In the "Record Retailing Yearbook" 1946 there is the following information on page 398:
Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation
President: E.A. Nicholas Products manufactured: Radio and television receivers and transmitters, television tubes, Phonograph-radio. Trade Names: Farnsworth, Capehart, Panamuse.
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Ernst Erb
11.Oct.12 |
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Through "THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW", October 1940, we learn that Capehart dealers sent 62 service men, representing 53 Capehart dealers to a three-day school and convention at Marion, Ind. where the Farnsworth factory was situated and Fort Wayne, Ind. where the general office and research laboratory was situated.
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Ernst Erb
27.Oct.12 |
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Stephan Masek has photographed the inscription on the cabinet, reading "Sherman, Clay & Co." By the way: Sherman, Clay & Co. is listed by Wikipedia as piano brand. It operates still today and calls itself "Since 8170, America's leading piano dealer". The founder, Leander Sherman went to San Francisco's Barbary Coast where the gold rush was dragging people away where he got a post at age 14 as apprentice in a clock shop. He later became a clock repairman including European music boxes. Later he became a post as general clerk for A. A. Rosenberg's music store. 1970 he could offer to buy out Rosenberg with borrowed captal. A retired Army major, C.C. Clay purchased partner (since 1871) F.A. Hyde's interest and the company was renamed Sherman Clay & Company. "Sherman Clay continued throughout the fifties under the management of the founder's descendants until 1960, when the Company was purchased by Parker Pace Corporation (Bern Schwartz). At the time of purchase, there were twenty-one stores in the Sherman Clay chain, and the electronic organ, invented in 1934, was gathering popularity." Sherman & Clay was and is at least one of the biggest piano sellers.
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