• Year
  • 1929/1930
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 163517
    • alternative name: Wholesale Radio

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 8
  • Main principle
  • TRF without regeneration; Screengrid 1926-1935
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 50 to 60 cycles, 105 - 125 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 260 Trio - Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New
  • Shape
  • Console, Highboy (legs > 50 %).
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 26.25 x 47.5 x 15.25 inch / 667 x 1207 x 387 mm
  • Notes
  • The catalog 1930 for season 1929/30 names this 8 tube chassis "Lafayette Trio Screen-Grid". It features 3 screen grid tubes, most probably type 224, two unknown tubes, probably 227, 2 tubes 245 for push-pull, probably 280 rectifier and a dynamic speaker. "Wholesale Radio Cervice Co. Inc." writes: "Lafayette has designed, developed and produced, with its own research and engineering resources, a radio new in design, new in appereance, new in every detail and unit that goes into its construction. It is, we believe, years ahead of any competitive radio set ...". Three knobs, illuminated drum scale. The same chassis is used for Lafayette Trio Screen-Grid Receiver models 210, 285, 218, 200, 260 and Phonograph Combination.

    The list price for the model 260 Trio is $ 182.25 without tubes/aerial equipment or $ 211.25 with - but Lafayette puts a price of $ 89.25 or $ 103.46 all inclusive. See details and summaries for the models of this catalog.
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 103.00 $ !
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Lafayette Radio Catalog (Wholesale Radio Service Co. Inc. catalog 1930 for 1929/30, page 11 - 17.)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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