• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL

• Year
• 1937/1938

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 48172

• • Brand: Airline or Air-Line

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6A8G 6K7G 6Q7G 6F6G 5Y3G

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 465 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Material
• Bakelite case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Airline 62-636 Order= P462 B 636 - Montgomery Ward & Co. Wards,

• Shape
• Tablemodel without push buttons, Mantel/Midget/Compact up to 14

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 12 x 7.5 x 6.75 inch / 305 x 191 x 171 mm

• Notes

• BC (535-1720 kHz) band.

   

  Colours and material:

  model 386: black bakelite

  model 636: brown bakelite

  model 646: ivory plaskon

  The Wards model 62-636 featured Finger tip "Teledial" tuning with 13 finger tip openings that could each contains the call letters of a selected station.  Wards included a complete list of US radio stations from which the purchaser could select stations including one for "Police".  Individual stations were selected by turning the proper finger opening to the bottom of the dial and then fine tuning. 

• Price in first year of sale
• 14.95 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 10 = 1939 and before

• Mentioned in
• Rider's 10-17

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 35.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• -- Original-techn. papers. (The Teledial: Montgomery-Wards’ “Airline” Model 62-636, R.Post, The Spectrum Monitor, 2-2026, )

• Literature/Schematics (4)
• Montgomery Ward Catalogs (Wards, Airline) (Fall/Winter 1937/38, No.127, page 646.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 2357 models, 1479 with images and 1857 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL