Cabinet Style: Cathedral
Tube Count: 4
Circuit Type: TRF
Power: AC w/ transformer
Bands: Broadcast
Tubes: 224, 235, 241, 280
Speaker: Dynamic

This set uses only 4 tubes to do the same job as the 6 tube Crosley Gembox. It still has a log number dial (1-100) but has a built in dynamic speaker.
The cabinet, in the popular “cathedral” or gothic style, is very basic and it was obviously built to meet the needs of radio buyers during the depths of the Great Depression.

The Voco Radio Manufacturing Company was incorporated in Pittsburgh, PA in 1932.
If you can provide any other information about the Voco Radio Mfg. Co. Please e-mail me

The World Of 1932

· President: Herbert C. Hoover
· Population: 124,840,471
· First class stamp: $0.02 (Raised to $0.03 on 7/6/32)
· Unemployment: 24.1%

Headlines

· Charles A. Lindbergh's baby son is kidnapped & killed.
· Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo.
· Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall opens.
· The atom is split for the first time.
· Nazis lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag seats.
· Famine is widespread in U.S.S.R.

Oscars:

· Outstanding Production: "Grand Hotel"

· World Series: NY Yankees d. Chicago Cubs (4-0)

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Historical Data From InfoPlease.com

· "The Ed Sullivan Show" premiers on CBS.
· "The Jack Benny Program" premiers on NBC.
· 1st political campaign telecast (Democratic Nat'l Comm.),
· "The Fred Allen Show" premiers.
· "Walter Winchell's Journal" premiers.
· AVC, or Automatic Volume Control is introduced.
· The first auto radios are sold.
· "Vic and Sade" premiers on NBC.

Top 10 Radio Shows in 1932
(CAB ratings*)

1. "Chase & Sanborn Hour "(Eddie Cantor)
2. "Lucky Strike Hour"
3. "Texaco Fire Chief Program"
4. "Maxwell House Show Boat"
5. "Fleischmann Hour"
6. "Blue Ribbon Malt Program".
7. "Robert Burns Program".
8. "Amos 'n' Andy"
9. "Myrt and Marge"
10. "Cities Service Concert"

(*The Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (CAB) Service rated radio program popularity from 1929 to 1934)

Radio at the dawn of the 1930's

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Top Ten Shows from "A Thirty Year History of Radio  Programs 1926-1956" by Harrison B. Summers

Radio Attic's Archive for Voco Radio
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I would love to find and ad for the Voco Radio Corporation. If you can help please email me!

Note the missing speaker grill, knob and right column top.
The "grill cloth" is window screen.

The chassis restoration required a new antenna coil from Antique Electronic Supply along with the usual re-cap. It could use a speaker re-coning.