Mauri' ha trovato un'esemplare.... FADA 361, lo sportello e' completamente impiallacciato!!

Proposta di restauro: ricostruzione sportello radio

Prossima missione, ricostruzione di uno sportello di una radio degli anni trenta,
FADA RADIO LP. (radio piu' giradischi)
Eseguiremo una ricerca per vedere se si possa trovare esemplari simili per avere piu' ispirazioni per la riscostruzinoe dello sportello mancante, sicuramente impiallacciato in noce.
Intanto il produttore della radio e' americano, se andate a vedere il sito qua sotto citato troverete il marchio.

citazioni dal:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=722 :

Informazioni sul produttore Fada Radio & Electric Co.; Long Island (NY)

Nome: Fada Radio & Electric Co.; Long Island (NY) (USA)
Abbreviazione: fada
Prodotti: modelli
Riassunto: Fada Radio & Electric Co.; 30-20 Thomson Avenue, Long Island, New York, former F.A.D.Andrea,Inc. 1581 Jerome Avenue,NY,NY

Trade names Fada, Fadalette, Motoset.

Not to be confused with Andrea Radio Corp (see andrea)

Export to: Generalvertretung Schweiz: 1933 = Atlanta-Radio; Zürich - später Ingenieurbureau Wenger & Cie.; Zürich.


Fondata: 1920
Storia: From the literature(A.Douglas et al)the following info can be found:

Frank d´Andrea sold this company and its name, and began a new company in 1934 named Andrea Radio Corporation (see Andrea).

Mr.Bruce Hagen made this interesting first hand contribution:

I was a dealer and also a distributor for FADA. And later a dealer and a sales rep for Andrea. At one point Andrea was considering to bring back the FADA logo but I guess someone there didn't approve of the idea which came out of the sales department.

I do not think that Mr. Andrea sold F A D Andrea, Inc. but sold a company that he created by the name of FADA Radio & Electric Corporation. I have stock certificates indicating that FA was President of this company in late 1933. I believe that this is the company that was sold to the Boston group that put it into bankruptcy, not F A D Andrea inc. The NY group was apparently headed by Jacob M Marks and they brought the company out of bankruptcy using the name Fada Radio & Electric Company, Inc. JM was President when FADA folded for good in 1955. His title was GM in 1937 or so.

The family story is that Mr. Andrea returned to the radio world in 1934 as Andrea Radio Corporation but I tend to believe that it was F A D Andrea Inc as there was a press release in Radio Retailing in 1935 announcing that FA had agreed to rename his company. No mention of from what to what.

Then there was a rumor that he started Empire Electric but I've never been able to document that.

Bruce Hagen



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Ursprung Firmenname FADA (09.03.2004) Konrad Birkner 377/0
Der Gründer hieß Frank Angelo D´Andrea. Er formte aus den Initialen den Firmennamen FADA. Die Firma brachte im Februar 1923 mit dem Modell 160(A) (genannt "one sixty") als erste einen Neutrodyne-Empfänger (nach Prof. Alan Hazeltine) auf den Markt.

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