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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2881569, member: 14873&quot;]<font size="6"><b>Good tools helped a lot in building and repairing radios in the 1930s. I still have my tool sets:</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>NORTH BROS. MFG. CO. &quot;YANKEE&quot; Radio Tool Sets</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0a10517.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Radio Tools store counter display stand (front)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0a10518.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Radio Tools store counter display stand (back)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0a10511s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/0a10511.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>From early 1920&#039;s A. Weber Company Distributor catalog</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In the days of Radio&#039;s infancy - the 1920s and early 1930s - radio manufacture, rebuild and repair was very much the province of wood workers. The chassis for mounting components and the speaker cabinets were mostly made of wood. I used to assist my father, who was a great tinkerer, in repairing and modifying radios belonging to friends and relatives during the late 1930s and 1940s. I also built my own crystal radios.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/0a10653.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>1924 NORTH BROS. ADVERTISEMENT</p><p><br /></p><p>.......... and for work on electrical appliances, odd jobs, and general home maintenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;YANKEE&quot; Radio Tools were available in two sets: No. 105 packaged in the standard North Bros. pale green cardboard box with a descriptive yellow label and as No. 106, which consisted of the No. 105 Tool Set plus a No. 1431 Radio Hand Drill, in a fitted wooden chest (which in turn was in a standard North Bros. cardboard packing box). Both of these sets were listed by North Bros. in their tool catalogs from the mid 1920s until sometime in the late 1930s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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