-40%
RARE 1930s INTERNATIONAL speakers 8 OHMs In Pristine Condition
$ 316.8
- Description
- Size Guide
Description
(EXTREMELY
RARE
)
The International Radio Corporation (IRC) was an American
Radio
receiver
manufacturing company based in ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN. It was established in 1931 by Charles Albert Verschoor with financial backing from Ann Arbor mayor William E. Brown, Jr., and a group of local business leaders. IRC manufactured numerous different radios, many bearing the Kadette name, including the first mass-produced AC/DC RADIO, the first pocket radio, and the first CLOCK RADIO. Due to the seasonal nature of radio sales, the company attempted to diversify its offerings with a product that would sell well during the summer, eventually settling on a CAMERA that would become the ARGUS. In 1939, IRC sold its radio-manufacturing business to its former General Sales Manager, W. Keene Jackson, although his new Kadette Radio Corporation only survived for a year before it went defunct. After WORLD WAR 2, International Industries and its International Research division became WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES of Argus, Inc., after which point the International name ceased to exist.
International Radio Corporation