[78-L] Capehart changer, was Columbia album sets

[David Breneman]

> From: danvanlandingham at yahoo.com
> >
> > Didn't Capehart merge with Farnsworth?

Farnsworth's backers bought the floundering remains
of Capehart's automatic phonograph company in order
to provide an electronics factory to build Farnsworth
television equipment.  Farnsworth and DuMont were
both renegades trying to manufacture both broadcast
and home equipment to compete with RCA across their
product line.  Capehart himself had long  since
decamped to Wurlitzer to run its jukebox division
(very successfully I might add), then left Wurlitzer
to run for the US Senate (also successfully),
then set up the Packard jukebox company to compete
after WWII (UNsuccessfully - he couldn't crack the
tight manufacturer/distributor/operator business
model he had establish at Wurlitzer, and which was
adopted by the other jukebox manufacturers.)