I doubt that Burroughs had a factory in Japan. I suspect that they were made in Japan for Burroughs. I also suspect that the same tubes were made for other companies and badged for them.
On Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:32:58 AM UTC-4 nixiebunny wrote: > Yes, JRC is Japan Radio. But did they have a Nixie tube factory, or did > they print their name on tubes made by another company? These tubes were > made using rather sophisticated methods, and the tooling would be rather > unique. > Did JRC make Nixie tubes? Did Burroughs make Nixie tubes in Japan? > (I just popped the back off a c.1960 five tube radio made by Monarch in > Japan, and it is full of Matsushita tubes.) > It's an interesting question. > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022, 5:15 PM Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> > wrote: > >> On 2022-08-20 14:25, David Forbes wrote: >> > Max, >> > Thanks for the photo. These JRC tubes look very similar to Japanese >> > Burroughs B-5870 tubes. It's likely they were made in the same factory, >> > but I don't know whose factory it was. >> >> JRC? (Japan Radio Company) >> >> -- >> Charles MacDonald VA3CPY >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c7443a90-459d-4ae4-be2b-b8a3672db678n%40googlegroups.com.
