Early Color Television

CT-100 Engineering Sample

Courtesy of Dave Abramson

Ned Borger showed us pictures of a CT100 he picked up over the winter. It appears to be #B547...the only number stamped on the chassis.  The yellow stencil is ENGRG #58.  The cabinet numbers match.  Was this set pulled in to do testing by RCA or a competitor?  It was from Long Island and now is in northeast Pennsylvania.

Here is a comment from Pete Deksnis:

Been stuck in the back of my head for years was something I read about a Test Run of color receivers. Supposedly done by RCA to check whether manufacturing color receivers would be a practical undertaking.Been looking for it all day and finally found it in a piece written by a couple of RCA Camden engineering dudes. Reading not too deep between the lines shows that these receivers were "...turned out early in 1954", which means to me AFTER the Model 5 run and BEFORE the March 25, 1954 run of 4000 CT-100's.

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