Radio Doings May 22, 1927 - AmericanRadioHistory.Com

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The next meeting of the Radio Manufacturers'
Agents Association will be
held at the Elite, 633 South Flower St.,
Los Angeles, at noon, Friday. May 27.
"Bertie" Smith, Kodel representative
for the western states, has been called
to the home office in Cincinnati for a
meeting of the sales organization. He
will be away about ten dayse.
May 21
The Yale Radio Electric Company announce
to the trade that they have discontinued
the distribution of the Federal
Ortho-sonic line in Southern California.
This concern always on the
alert to offer to the trade and consumer
the newest and best in radio, will shortly
have an important announcement
concerning a line of national prominence.
A. L. Meyer, who has been in charge
of the Los Angeles branch of Leo J.
Meyberg Company, has been elected
vice president of the Meyberg Company.
and has been appointed general manager;
he will make his headquarters in
San Francisco at the home office.
"Shorty" Sherman. who, for the past
two years has been general manager
for the Illinois Electric Company in Los
Angeles, has been named es manager of
the Los Angeles branch of the Meyberg
Company.
Mr. Oscar Getz. recently elected Vice
President, and who lias been, for several
years, General Sales Manager of
the Steinite Laboratories, was a recent
visitor in Los Angeles. Mr. Getz visited
his various Jobbers on the entire
Pacific coast. He speaks most optimistically
on business conditions on the
coast and, as a matter of fact, in all
their territory, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, their sales in the past three
months haie been steadily increasing.
The Steinite Laboratories are located
in Atchison, Kansas, and are the manufacturers
of the nationally known Stein -
ite no- battery receivers. The National
Radio & Supply Company, of 814 S.
Olive St.. Los Angeles, of which Messrs.
F. W. Stein and Robert Hulbert are the
heads, are exclusive .distributors for
Southern California for the entire Stein -
Ite Line. already having over 100 leading
dealers handling these products.
Ira Seltzer, of the firm of Henger-
Seltzer, has Just returned from an extended
trip in the east where he has
been visiting the factories he represents
to see the models that will be offered
this coming season. Seltzer is glad to
find that the business received from
California and the Pacific coast by eastern
manufacturers shows a more consistent
growth than from any other
part of the country and also that the
demand for parts and kits shows a
great Increase.
The Henger -Seltzer Company announce
that they have been appointed
California representatives for the Ham -
merlund line, and will carry an emergency
stock of their products for the
benefit of California Jobbers. The line
will be handled on a strictly iron -clad.
high class Jobber policy.
B. E. White, previously with Detach
& Co., Is now associated with B. R.
Hassler Company, representing L. S.
Brach Mfg. Company and Valley Electric
Company of St. Louis.
The Newbery Electric Corporation, at
728 South Olive street, Los Angeles, is
making a feature of service in radio,
voice and music amplification for banquets
and all public meetings. They
use a Universal Type Amplifier of special
design and construction, which has
given very satisfactory results at numerous
public gatherings.