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Here are some photographs I have found of early radio and TV workbenches. If you have any vintage radio/TV or electronic workbench photos from the 1960s or earlier to add here please contact me.
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![]() Hickok Repair Bench - circa 1947 Hickok Electrical Instrument Co.
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![]() RCA Workbench - circa 1932 This photo with the RCA logo removed was also used on the cover of the 1933 Supreme Instruments catalog. Note the Supreme 400B Diagnometer and other test equipment mounted in the wall above the RCA logo. It was quite common in the late 1920s and early 1930's to have the radio test equipment custom built into the service bench. Photo Source: Radio Servicing Course by Ghirardi and Freed, 1932
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![]() Radio Workbench - circa 1935 Notice every piece of test equipment is built in to the back of this workbench. Photo Source: Modern Radio Servicing by Ghirardi 1935
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![]() Radio Workbench - circa 1930 L. F. Lyon radio service bench, Syracuse New York. Photo Source: Radio News, June 1930
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![]() ![]() Photo Source: Atwater Kent Factory Service File - 1931
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![]() 1946 Radio Workbench Workbench at Tommy Tuckers in Asbury Park NJ. Photo Source: Radio Service Dealer - June 1946
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![]() 1941 Radio Workbench Olympic Radio and Television, Seattle WA. Photo Source: Service - January 1941
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![]() Mabry Radio Shop Service Bench Beaumont Texas Photo Source: Radio News - May 1931
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![]() 1970 Radio/TV Workbench Don McCowan's Workbench 1970, Kaysville, Utah Later moved shop to Salmon, ID (1971-1987). Photo Source: Son-In-Law
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![]() 1941 Radio Workbench D. H. Thompson's Workbench 1941, Pecatonica, IL Photo Source: Service - January 1941
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![]() Galperin Music Company Service Shop Charleston, West Virginia, March, 1947
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![]() Rozell Radio, Montrose, Pa circa 1947 Radio Workbench Fred Dezter (left) Harry Rozell (right)
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![]() Campanale Radio - Radio Workbench - Worcester, Mass., 1938 ![]() Campanale Radio - Black and White TV Workbench - Worcester, Mass., 1955 ![]() Campanale Radio - Color TV Workbench - Worcester, Mass., 1965
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![]() George J. Damm Radio Service Workbench, Blue Island Ill, 1949 Photo Source: Grandson
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![]() Hambrick & Crecente Radio Workbench, Moultrie, Ga. Photo Source: Radio Craft, August 1948
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![]() Supreme Instruments "Radio Service Shop" Supreme Instruments radio repair bench and the Supreme Diagnomoscope Bench. From Supreme catalog not dated but shows labrotory bench configruations using the 500 series Supreme test equipment available around 1938. More Supreme Instrumends
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