• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• United Motors Service (Delco)

• Year
• 1951/1952

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

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 64386

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

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• 6BA6 6BE6 6BA6 6AV6 6V6GT 0Z4

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 262 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
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) - elliptical

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 986515 Chevrolet - United Motors Service Delco

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Notes

• Chevrolet model 986515 is a battery operated custom-built 1951 chevrolet auto radio, superheterodyne receiver. vibrator for +B;

   

   

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 22, covering 1951

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Beitman Radio Diagrams, Vol. 11, 1951

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Set 149, folder 5, dated 11-51)

• Other Models

• Here you find 585 models, 331 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)