{{short description|Former American radio brand}} {{for-multi|the former semi-professional American football team known as the "Majestic Radios"|J.P. Rooneys}} {{good article}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use American English|date=November 2023}} thumb|Model 161, introduced in 1933 '''Majestic Radios''' was an American radio brand from 1927 to 1955, trademarked as "The Mighty Monarchs of the Air". Noted for their high quality, they were initially manufactured by the '''Grigsby-Grunow Company''' of Chicago.<ref name=tarheel /> After Grigsby-Grunow's demise in 1934 during the Great Depression, Majestic Radios continued to be made through subsequent corporate ownership changes and reorganizations for another twenty-two years. The '''Majestic Radio & Television Corporation''' was formed to produce the radios in the 1930s and 1940s. Following Majestic Radio & Television's liquidation in 1949, Majestic-brand radios were made by a division of the '''Wilcox-Gay Corporation''' at their Michigan factory in the 1950s.
==Grigsby-Grunow years (1927–1934)== ===Formation and development=== Before embarking on radio manufacturing, the Grigsby-Grunow Company had started in 1921 as the Grigsby-Grunow-Hinds Company in Chicago, making such automotive aftermarket items as its "Premier" brand of sun visors.<ref name=GGH>{{cite news|first=W. J.|last=Seroy|title=Makers of Standard Set Beat Heat|newspaper=Oakland Tribune|date=September 21, 1928|page=B-33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/95621142/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=blyn>{{cite news|title=Grigsby Radio Holdings Sold|newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=June 17, 1936|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63413337/brooklyn-daily-eagle-ap-6171936/|agency=Associated Press|page=24|via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}</ref> co-founded by Bertram James Grigsby and William Carl Grunow, an Army major in World War I.<ref name=GGH /><ref name=nytobit>{{cite news|title=William Grunow, Once Radio Leader|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/07/07/87282491.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|date=July 7, 1951|agency=Associated Press (AP)}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=Time1932>{{cite magazine|title=Business: Deals & Developments|date=January 4, 1932|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742830,00.html|magazine=Time}}{{subscription required}}</ref> By 1927, the company had annual nationwide sales of $5 million in manufacturing products such as "Majestic" battery eliminators for home radios. The device, developed by inventor William Lear for Grigsby-Grunow, eliminated the need for a cumbersome array of lead-acid batteries and chargers to power radio receivers of the time.<ref name=GGH /><ref>{{cite web|title=Lear Sr., William Powell|publisher=National Aviation Hall of Fame|url=https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/lear-sr-william/|access-date=March 18, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120015215/http://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/lear-sr-william/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=To the Distributors of Grigsby-Grunow Company's Majestic Electric Radio Receiving Sets (advertisement)|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/355225593/|page=34|date=December 13, 1928|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> With the growing popularity of commercial broadcasting and the development of nationwide networks in the prosperous 1920s, there was increasing consumer demand for better audio quality and console radios suitable for the living room or parlor of American households.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lewis|first=Tom|title='A Godlike Presence': The Impact of Radio on the 1920s and 1930s|magazine=OAH Magazine of History|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=6|number=4|year=1992|pages=26–33|jstor=25154082}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Litwinovich|title=Sounds good, looks great: Radio Cabinetry|date=April 11, 2014|url=https://www.wshu.org/post/sounds-good-looks-great-radio-cabinetry|publisher=WSHU-FM|location=Fairfield, Connecticut}}</ref>
In 1927, Grigsby-Grunow (by then, Hinds was no longer a part of the enterprise) began making "Majestic" radios featuring dynamic speakers with moving-coils and advanced circuitry employing screen-grid tubes for improved reception. The Majestic Model #71 introduced in 1927, for example, was a tuned radio frequency receiver with a {{convert|9|in|cm|0|adj=on}} speaker, powered from AC house current.<ref name=majestic>{{cite web|title=Majestic Collection|publisher=majesticradios.com|url=http://majesticradios.com/index_files/Page417.htm|access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> This was a considerable improvement over previous radios having typically poor selectivity and producing inferior sound from old-fashioned horn speakers or earphones. Majestic radios were highly regarded for their handsome cabinetry and superior loudspeaker quality.<ref name=tarheel>{{cite news|title=Carolina Will Co-operate In Majestic Radio Display For Week Starting Monday|newspaper=Charlotte Observer|date=March 24, 1930|department=Majestic Radio Show Section|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/616853276/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Model #131, a floor console made in 1930, had an 8-tube circuit for high sensitivity and selectivity, along with a {{convert|12|in|cm|0|adj=on}} speaker.<ref name=majestic />
===The "Roaring Twenties"=== To promote its radio sales, Grigsby-Grunow sponsored ''The Majestic Theater of the Air'' musical show on the CBS radio network beginning in October, 1928.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wendell Hall Back to Active Work on Radio|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|date=August 17, 1929|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/617091015/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Coast-to-Coast Hookup Planned for Majestic's Sunday Radio Programs|newspaper=Altoona Tribune|date=November 10, 1928|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/57134296/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> By 1928, the company enjoyed booming sales and had become the second largest U.S. radio manufacturer, behind RCA and ahead of Atwater-Kent.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ellis|first=William E.|title=Labor-Management Relations in the Progressive Era|journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society|jstor=23378790|volume=78|number=2|date=Spring 1980|page=146}}</ref> Grigsby-Grunow was producing 4,000 radios a day and shipping them by the trainload nationwide, newspapers reported.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mass-production Methods Succeed|newspaper=Reading Times|date=March 26, 1929|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/47812525/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Majestic's trademarked slogan was "The Mighty Monarch of the Air" and its advertising in 1930 touted a {{nowrap|40 percent market}} share of U.S. and Canada radio sales.<ref name=okie /> Prices ranged from $126.50 to $235 in 1930 (equivalent to $1,890–$3,500 in 2020), with installment purchase plans offered by retail dealers.<ref name=okie>{{cite news|title=The Mighty Monarch of the Air (advertisement)|newspaper=El Reno Daily Tribune|location=El Reno, Oklahoma|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/663675876/|date=June 29, 1930|page=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In a March, 1930, review, the ''Charlotte Observer'' said the Majestic brand was "famous the world over for its excellent reception and colorful tone", with "striking yet tasteful cabinet designs".<ref name=tarheel /> Indeed, so highly regarded were the radios that ''Graf Zeppelin'' navigator Max Pruss purchased a set in 1929 while his dirigible was moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, to take back to his home in Germany. ''Graf Zeppelin'' captain Hugo Eckener had purchased his own set on a previous visit to the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=Majestic Radio on board the Graf Zeppelin|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|date=September 20, 1929|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63322264/honolulu-star-bulletin-9-20-1929/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}</ref>
thumb|Iron banks modeled after the iconic Majestic name and look At its peak in 1930, Grigsby-Grunow employed 11,000 workers at its Chicago factory and sales reached $61 million annually.<ref name=blyn /> Its stock price had reached dizzying heights and was called "the sensation of the Chicago Exchange" by ''Time'' magazine: a share purchased at $40 in 1928 had risen to $1,100 in value at its 1929 peak (taking into account multiple 4-for-1 stock splits).<ref name=blyn /><ref name=Time1930>{{cite magazine|title=Business: Grigsby-Grunow|date=June 30, 1930|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,739731,00.html}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Radio stocks as a new technology were particularly attractive in the rush to buy common stocks during the Roaring Twenties. As Thurman Arnold wrote in 1965: "Economists argued that when you buy common stocks, you buy the future, not the present. Names like Auburn, Grigsby-Grunow, Kolster Radio – names you no longer hear of – flashed across the ticker tape".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Arnold|first=Thurman|authorlink=Thurman Arnold|title=Roosevelt's Contribution to the American Competitive Ideal|journal=The Centennial Review|publisher=Michigan State University|date=Spring 1965|jstor=23737683|page=197|volume=9|number=2}}</ref>
===The Depression years=== After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow's stock began a steep decline, eventually down to $18.00 per share, equal to ${{Inflation|US|18|1930|fmt=c}} today. In April, 1930, the company announced the formation of Majestic Household Utilities, a new subsidiary to manufacture refrigerators and other appliances, such as vacuum cleaners and washing machines, and deliveries of Majestic refrigerators began in October.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Business: Grigsby-Grunow|date=April 28, 1930|magazine=Time|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,752467,00.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First Refrigerator Arrives|newspaper=Pittsburgh Press|date=October 19, 1930|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/146298356/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A $9 million plant expansion (equal to ${{Inflation|US|9000000|1930|fmt=c}} today) was undertaken to produce 600 all-electric refrigerators daily. A company distributor said Majestic's refrigerators would have "several new mechanical features" to make them silent-running and {{nowrap|30 percent}} more energy efficient that competing brands.<ref>{{cite news|title=Majestic All-Electric Refrigerator Perfected|date=April 2, 1930|newspaper=Coronado Eagle and Journal|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CJ19300402.2.14|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> Ominously, however, ''Time'' magazine was reporting on the unsold inventory of Majestic radios and decreasing company revenue by June, 1930, as consumers curtailed spending on luxury items, saying, "the radio industry is a ... sufferer in time of depression".<ref name=Time1930 /> As the Great Depression worsened, the company faced a number of patent infringement lawsuits and declining sales for its expensive console models.<ref name=Time1932 /> Grunow, notoriously irascible by nature, was forced out as president in 1931 as sales declined.<ref name=nytobit /><ref name=Time1932 /><ref name=Comet>{{cite magazine|title=Business: Fallen Comet|magazine=Time|date=December 4, 1933|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746452,00.html}}{{subscription required}}</ref> He went on to start General Household Utilities in 1933 to manufacture Grunow refrigerators and radios, but it went out of business in 1939.<ref name=nytobit />
The Majestic "Smart Set" line of less expensive, but stylish, table radios was introduced in mid-1933 and enjoyed strong sales. The model 161 ''(pictured at top)'' produced in 1933 was a superheterodyne receiver with Art Deco-style chrome decorative trim adorning the loudspeaker grill cloth and a hand-rubbed mahogany cabinet, having a list price of $47.50, equal to ${{Inflation|US|47.5|1933|fmt=c}} today.<ref name=collector>{{cite journal|last=Majestic|first=Richard|title=The 1933 Majestic 161 Chrome-Front Radio|journal=Antique Radio Classified|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Antique-Radio-Classified/2000s/2012-05.pdf#page=14|date=May 2012|volume=29|number=5|pages=12–15|access-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> Nonetheless, Grigsby-Grunow declared bankruptcy in November, 1933, and ended production of Majestic Radios in February, 1934.<ref name=Comet /> When the bankruptcy court rejected its reorganization plan, Grigsby-Grunow was forced into liquidation in June, 1934, at the urging of creditors and bondholders.<ref name=blyn /> The bankruptcy court ordered the trustee to establish a Refrigeration Service Department to service Majestic refrigerators and sell parts, along with parts for Majestic radios.<ref>{{cite news|title=Liquidation Sale of Grigsby-Grunow|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=October 3, 1934|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46007609/chicago-tribune/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}</ref>
==Majestic Radio & Television years (1936–1949)== thumb|Majestic portable radio (1947) In 1936, the assets of the defunct Grigsby-Grunow company were acquired by a new investment group, led by Zenith Radio.<ref name=blyn /> Included in the acquisition were the trademarks "Majestic Radio" and "The Mighty Monarch of the Air", along with unsold inventory, manufacturing equipment, and Grigsby-Grunow's former Chicago factory, which Zenith needed for its own expansion plans. The Majestic Radio & Television Corporation was formed, with stock in the new company offered at $3.75 per share (equal to ${{Inflation|US|3.75|1936|r=2}} today) in October, 1936, to raise working capital and facilitate business expansion.<ref>{{cite news|title=Majestic Radio Offering Closed|newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=October 30, 1936|page=27|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/52708417/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Davega Stores became a principal stockholder, owning 175,000 shares.<ref name=Eagle /> Early in his career, inventor Otis Boykin began working for the company as a laboratory assistant, eventually becoming plant foreman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Visionary STEM Leader: Otis Frank Boykin|publisher=Perot Museum of Nature and Science|location=Dallas, Texas|url=https://www.perotmuseum.org/programs-and-events/all-ages/STEMLeaders/otis-frank-boykin.html|access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref>
Majestic Radio & Television submitted a voluntary reorganization plan after filing for bankruptcy on October 24, 1939. The company's plan to restructure its debt had the agreement of unsecured creditors, such as suppliers of vacuum tubes. The company stressed that business was strong and day-to-day operations would not be affected.<ref name=Eagle>{{cite news|title=Majestic Radio Works on Plan|newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=October 25, 1939|page=21|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/52620159/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> During {{nowrap|World War II}}, the company performed defense work, employing noted crystallographer George Switzer to ensure that the crystal oscillators in aircraft transceivers were operating on the intended frequencies.<ref>{{cite news|first=Joe |last=Holley|title=George Switzer; Got Hope Diamond for Smithsonian |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032603029.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 27, 2008}}</ref>
Following the end of {{nowrap|World War II}}, the company optimistically invested $600,000 (equal to ${{Inflation|US|600000|1945|fmt=c}} today) in a new, {{convert|161,000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} factory on {{convert|69|acre|ha}} in Elgin, Illinois.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two New Radio Factories Will Cost $1.3 Million|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=September 30, 1945|page=27|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/371379501/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Majestic's product line included colorful, futuristic tabletop sets, as well as combination radio and phonograph consoles with FM tuners, beginning in 1947.<ref>{{cite web|title=Model 8FM776 (1947)|publisher=Radio Attic Archives|url=https://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=1087|access-date=November 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Model 5A410 (1946)|url=https://radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=10370|publisher=Radio Attic Archives|access-date=November 20, 2020}}</ref> The company also formed a subsidiary, Majestic Records, to produce phonograph records, beginning in 1945. Its studios were in New York City and the city's erstwhile mayor, Jimmy Walker, was named president.<ref name=78rpm>{{cite magazine|last=Lewis|first=David N.|title=The Mighty Monarch of the Air: A Short History of the Short Life of Majestic Records|date=Spring 2013|volume=44|issue=1|magazine=ARSC|publisher=Association for Recorded Sound|location=Annapolis, Maryland|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/7a23aa63e3aabc1f0944656a7d58a8a4/1|id={{ProQuest|<!-- insert ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref> Although Majestic Records had some popular artists on its label, such as Bud Freeman and Louis Prima, it ceased pressing records in 1948 due to financial difficulties and its catalog was acquired by Mercury Records.<ref name=78rpm />
The expected postwar demand for radios did not materialize and the company was unable to develop its envisioned line of televisions, leading to the company again filing for bankruptcy in February, 1948, including its Majestic Records subsidiary.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Facts & Figures, Feb. 16, 1948|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794243,00.html|magazine=Time}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Schneider|first=Lou|title=Downtrend of Grain Prices Heads to Parity Support|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=February 14, 1948|page=24|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/598904359/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> On May 27, 1949, the Federal bankruptcy court judge ordered the company's liquidation, as recommended by the trustees who concluded reorganization was not feasible. They attributed the company's failure to declining radio sales and price cutting, as well as the lack of success in television manufacturing.<ref>{{cite news|title=Liquidation Ordered for Majestic Radio|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 28, 1949|agency=AP|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/05/28/84213538.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Pursuant to the court's order, the Elgin factory was sold at auction in November of that year, along with inventory, equipment, and goodwill.<ref>{{cite news|title=One of Chicagoland's Choicest Daylight Plants (advertisement)|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=November 2, 1949|page=38|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/370357272|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Wilcox-Gay final years (1950s–1960s)== Leonard Ashbach, whose holding company owned Garod Radio Corporation, acquired the remaining assets of Majestic Radio & Television and a controlling share of stock in the Wilcox-Gay Corporation in 1950, with the intention of manufacturing Majestic radios and televisions at Wilcox-Gay's plant in Charlotte, Michigan (near Lansing).<ref>{{cite news|title=Ashbach in Expansion|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 15, 1950|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/111334133/|id={{ProQuest|111334133}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Radio Integration Set|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 15, 1950|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/111613877/|id={{ProQuest|111613877}}}}</ref> Wilcox-Gay, a manufacturer of recording equipment, phonographs, and televisions at the time, traced its origin to 1910, when Wilcox began making transcription equipment and radio kits. One of the company's products was the "Recordio", introduced in 1939. It enabled the consumer to make home 78 rpm phonograph records, even recording off-the-air radio programs with the included AM radio. In 1948, Wilcox-Gay introduced the "Recordette", a portable version of the combination recorder, radio, and phonograph.<ref>{{cite news|title=Home Recording for Everybody! (advertisement)|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=November 21, 1948|page=A-7|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433618506/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The company also made wire recorders in the 1940s which, like phonograph home recorders, were made obsolete by the development of reel-to-reel magnetic tape recorders and discontinued in the early 1950s.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Morton|first=David|title= Armour Research Foundation and the Wire Recorder: How Academic Entrepreneurs Fail|magazine=Technology and Culture|volume=39|number=2|year=1998|page=213|jstor=3107045}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kastner|first=Timothy|title=Recordio|work=TapeOp magazine|url=https://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/ManufacturersWilcoxGay.html|via=Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording ("Manufacturer Profiles: Wilcox-Gay Corp.")|access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref>
With the acquisition of Majestic Radio & TV approved by Wilcox-Gay's shareholders on August 22, 1950, manufacturing of Majestic brand radios and televisions began at the Charlotte, Michigan, factory.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Plan Approved for Majestic Radio|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 23, 1950|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/08/23/91631977.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0}}</ref> A line of eight Majestic radio models was offered, along with television sets.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ogden Firm To Distribute Majestic TV|newspaper=Deseret News|date=September 24, 1950|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/595130154/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In August, 1954, Ashbach announced that Wilcox-Gay's Majestic radio and television subsidiary would begin importing Grundig FM radios from Germany as well, including an AM-FM-shortwave table model, added to the firm's Majestic product line. The Grundig radios were distributed by the existing network of Majestic dealers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Majestic Expands To German Radios|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 25, 1954|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/113029297/|id={{ProQuest|113029297}}}}</ref>
However, just five months later in January, 1955, Wilcox-Gay filed for bankruptcy and ended its money-losing television production, although radios were still manufactured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wilcox-Gay Moves to End TV Operations|newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer and News|date=March 22, 1955|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/205859369/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The bankrupt firm eventually closed its Michigan plant in December, 1958, ending domestic production of Majestic radios, although the firm continued to be the sole U.S. importer of Grundig products through 1961.<ref>{{cite news|title=Charlotte Smiles with Jobs in Sight|newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer and News|date=March 6, 1959|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/204464604/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In September, 1961, a proposed merger with Davega Stores was not consummated because Wilcox-Gay failed to meet the merger agreement's cash terms.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sales and Mergers|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 16, 1961|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/115516169/|id={{ProQuest|115516169}}}}</ref> As 1961 drew to a close in late December, Wilcox-Gay was again bankrupt and went out of business completely, with its property, equipment, and remaining inventory going on the auction block March 27–29, 1962.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sale of Assets of Recordio, Wilcox-Gay Set March 27-9|newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer|date=March 8, 1962|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/220005072/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==As collector's items== Majestic radios from the Grigsby-Grunow halcyon era of the late 1920s–early 1930s have become antique radio collector's items, prized for their craftmanship and appearance.<ref>{{cite news|title=Antique radios make big noise with collectors|first=David|last=Uhler|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=June 20, 2004|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-06-20-0406200404-story.html|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Majestic|publisher=Radio Attic's Archives|url=https://radioatticarchives.com/archive.htm?page=m3|access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> Some models, such as the Art Deco-styled model 161 produced in 1933, have been fully restored.<ref name=collector />
==See also== * {{annotated link|List of radios}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Majestic radio receivers}} * [https://chicagology.com/silentmovies/grigsbygrunow/ Chicagology: Grigsby-Grunow] * [https://radioatticarchives.com/archive.htm?page=m3 Radio attic archives - Majestic radios] * [http://www.antiqueradio.com/SepOct10_Turney_Grigsby-Grunow_Part1.html The saga of Grigsby-Grunow/Majestic]
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