• Year
  • 1937 ?
  • Category
  • Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 45881
    • alternative name: Wholesale Radio

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 6
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 175 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 7 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 6 inch = 15.2 cm
  • Power out
  • 6 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: B-92 [Late] - Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New
  • Shape
  • Chassis only or for «building in»
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 10.5 x 6.5 x 7.375 inch / 267 x 165 x 187 mm
  • Notes
  • The Lafayette "custom built 6 tube superhet model B-92 has been made in different versions. Rider's 10-20 shows a model B92(K)Early under Lafayette Radio MFG. CO. and a B92 Late in 14-61 and 14-62 under Lafayette Radio - Radio Wire Television Inc. (see sometimes under "R"). On first sight they seem to be pretty much the same. There must be more subversions. The Lafayette catalog no. 68 for Spring/Summer 1937 is probably showing the early version as simply B-92 (with hyphen) but until we have not more information we list both for this catalog.

    The catalog: "Wave range 190 to 560 meters. Class "B" output. Automatic bass compensation, sensitivity control with two-point adjustment. Remote airplane type control can be adapted to practically any make of car. Built in filter circuit does away with spark-plug suppressors. Tone control, automatic volume control, one-hole mounting. Finished in black wrinkle with chrome grille. Current consumption 8 amperes." Listprice less control mounting kit is $ 59.00 and Lafayette price $ 29.50. Mounting plates, dials and knobs are supplied for $ 1.00. See details and summaries for the Lafayette catalog no. 68.
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 30.00 $
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 14 = 1944 = before 1943
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Lafayette Radio Catalog (Lafayette Spring and Summer catalog no. 68 for 1937, page 102.)

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