• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New York (NY)

• Year
• 1933/1934

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 159828

• • alternative name: Wholesale Radio

• Number of Tubes
• 7

• Valves / Tubes
• 58 56 58 58 2A6 2A5 80

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; 2 AF stage(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 105 - 120 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Power out
• 3 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Trutest 7 tube kit - Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 13 x 7 x 10 inch / 330 x 178 x 254 mm

• Notes
• The Lafayette catalog calls this model Trutest 7 tube Super-Het and it is a kit, chassis only. It has no reference number in tha catalog. The "special dynamic speaker" costs addl. $ 3.75, the matched kit of tubes $ 4.10 and a mantel cabinet $ 3.95. The catalog reads: "The automatic volume control (AVC) used is very effective ... This is one A.V.C. system that really works." Thre knobs as triangle.
  
  The chassis Trutest 7 kit is sold for $ 17.75 without tubes and loadspeaker. See details for the models of this catalog.

• Price in first year of sale
• 26.00 $

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Lafayette Radio Catalog (Lafayette catalog no. 55 for 1934, page 17.)

• Author
• Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 1379 models, 1198 with images and 424 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New York (NY)