• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Western Auto Supply Co. (Truetone); Kansas City (MO)

• Year
• 1949 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 241913

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• Number of Tubes
• 8

• Valves / Tubes
• 6BA6 12AT7 6BA6 6BA6 6AL5 6SQ7GT 6V6GT 5Y3GT

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455/10700 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (BC) and FM or UHF.

• Details
• Record Player (perh.Changer)

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 105-125 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: D1950 Truetone [8 tubes] - Western Auto Supply Co.

• Shape
• Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).

• Notes

• AC Operated Combination Phono-Radio, AM-FM Superherterodyne Receiver
  with Loop Antenna.
  AM: 540 - 1700 kc
  FM: 88 - 108 Mc.

  This model appears in SAMS Photofacts 60-20. Another version of the same folder has D1950 corrected to D1952. The SAMS index lists model D1950 only once in SAMS Photofacts 51-23 (see model with 10 tubes) - together with D1850 and D1951, but we can only find model D1850 there.

• Mentioned in
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Date 4/49 498-20 Set 60 Folder 20)

• Author
• Model page created by Friedrich Weber † 12.09.2014. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 901 models, 515 with images and 795 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Western Auto Supply Co. (Truetone); Kansas City (MO)