Quote Originally Posted by Altec Best View Post
I'm talking about this particular 604 in this thread. That is made by Altec Lansing and assembled by Northern Electric. Were talking about a speaker that was made in the 1940's..At that point NE was forced to develop it's own products.For all intense of purposes,this is a 604-604B.With it's probable 20159 (paper surround) cone and the larger Multicell horn. In the 1940-50's is when America was truly an industrial giant.Not like today where there is a hodge podge of parts manufactured in many countries and assembled in who knows what country.So this speaker with it's very early serial I would say was manufactured in the early 40's

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"In the 1940's-50's there were no Chinese parts that went into any of Altec's Manufacturing."

"At that point NE was forced to develop it's own products."


Sure sounds like you said I was claiming Chinese parts in a 1940's speaker. Then you say you were talking about another speaker.

"The Anti-trust lawsuit filed in 1949 forced WE/AT&T to sell it's stake in Northern Electric in 1956."

Cut and paste.

"At that point NE was forced to develop it's own products."

Edited to fit your agenda you took out phone. Says nothing about speakers, at a link YOU posted.

They still could have made under license.

This is a WWII era speaker most American manufacturing was for the war at the time.

You are wrong on component issues. Using something like a cone to date a speaker is completely wrong, that cone could have been put in last year.

I say Altec was doing war contracts...they built a lot for WWII. Assembly requires jigs, if WE/NE went to that expense they likely had molds, or at least WE did. I still see zero evidence for your opinion. If Altec made EVERY part it would have been cheaper to use Altec's jigs and finish the job. Altec likely could NOT furnish parts.You could well be proven right, and had you simply stated Think instead of were, Then not went off on the Chinese 1940's tangent this would have been a much shorter thread. Please don't present your opinion as fact, and I strongly feel web quotes should be verbatim.