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The AC Dayton
XL-5 was normally produced having a wooden cabinet but a few sets
were produced featuring a special plate glass cabinet. These
glass cabinet sets were never intended to be offered to the buying
public but were, instead, used by dealers as demonstration
sets. Unlike other glass cabinet radios such as the Dolores
and the Chesterfield, AC Dayton made no effort to conceal the wiring
of the demo XL-5 , in fact, the overall construction is slightly
better then what's found in the standard wooden sets. The
company must have received a lot of positive reception for the glass
cabinet XL-5 because in the following year, the company offered a
glass cabinet version of their XL-25 radio. I acquired this
radio, in 1992, from Ed Bell by offering, in trade, a complete 1928
Leutz Transoceanic receiver with B/C power supply. I acquired
the Leutz receiver from Joe Koester in trade for a 1936 E. H. Scott
All Wave 23 in a Laureate Grand cabinet which I originally bought
from Chicago resident, Mel Fragassi, a retired engineer who used to
work for Scott. |
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