GE CC437

Manufacturer: Canadian General Electric Co. Limited, Toronto, Canada.
Model: CC437
Approximate Date Of Manufacture: early 1960s
Type: 5 tube AC/DC BC band clock radio
Tube lineup: 12BE6 12BA6 12AV6 50C5 35W4 (miniature)
Status: working, restored
Where purchased: ebay, February 2006

Description

This is a 5-tube plastic radio made in the 1960s toward the end of the tube era. It has a clock movement with alarm and snooze setting. The radio is not particularly rare or interesting except for the fact that my parents had an identical radio when I was young. The knobs are made of a heavy transparent plastic which I find attractive and typical of this era.

As received it was working. I replaced all paper caps and gave it a good cleaning inside and out. The case polished up well using Novus polish.

Radios of this vintage often used printed circuit boards. This one does not, but it does have an unusual metal chassis with some parts mounted on it almost like a PCB. Other features that distinguish this from earlier radios are the ferrite loop antenna coil and the use of polystyrene plastic rather than bakelite. This was made near the end of the era of tube radios manufactured in North America.

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