• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• United Motors Service (Delco)

• Year
• 1940

• Category
• Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 64545

• • alternative name: Delco Radio Corp. (Appliance) || Delco-Remy Division, General Motors Corp. || United Motors Service Delco General Motors
  • Brand: Chieftain || Delco

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• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• 6SK7 6SA7 6SK7 6SQ7 6K6G 6X5G

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 262 kHz

• 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)

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Delco R686 - United Motors Service Delco

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Notes
• vibrator for +B;

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 12 = ca. 1941 and before

• Other Models

• Here you find 579 models, 316 with images and 548 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from United Motors Service (Delco)