Sounds like a marriage of an A case and B motor except for the speed control. Maybe the winding shaft was replaced?? I'd like to see pics!
John ________________________________ From: Bill Taney <b...@taney.com> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Edison Standard A versus B Model Mine is in the short (green) oak case, the motor has the external speed control and is held up against the bed plate/no springs and it has a threaded crank. Bill On 3/3/12 11:24 PM, "clockworkh...@aol.com" <clockworkh...@aol.com> wrote: > > >When George and I did the 1976 Edison cylinder phonograph book the >printer missed some text. I don't think it appeared when George did the >expanded Companion book. > >The Model A Standard used a pin crank engagement. The motor was held *up >against* the bedplate with screws through rubber grommets to lessen >vibration transmission. The speed control was up through the bedplate on >top. The cabinet is shorter than the later B. All Model A Standards in >the 'new style cabinet of 1901' have a banner transfer. > >The Model B Standard used a threaded engagement. The motor was >*suspended on springs* from the bedplate. Since the motor was lower, the >cabinet had to be increased in height for motor clearance from the >cabinet floor. This brought about the 'tall Standard' Model B cabinet >style. The speed control was made into a simple screw that did not >extend about the bedplate. The Model B Standard only had the banner >transfer for short time as the single word Edison replaced it in the >summer of '06. > >The ICS Standard machines had the speed control knob on top of the >bedplate all the way through the rest of the Standard line. They did >this to allow for adjustment to the 90 RPM record speed. > >In 1975 I received what I thought was the galley copy of the book from >George and immediately began editing. I called George a few days later >with my erratum and he told me that was the final copy not a galley >proof. As a result, there is one photograph of an Edison machine missing >from that book and the idiot typesetter and page format person >responsible for the Standard chapter never caught the mistake. The most >common Edison cylinder machine made, the Standard Model B, appears >nowhere in the book as a picture. And, now you know the rest of the >story. > >Regards to all, > >Al > >PS: Variations from the above machine descriptions are likely kitchen >table conglomerates, one of the confusing factors for Edison having so >many interchangeable parts floating around through the last 110 years. >eBay this last month had a Model B Home in a later D style cabinet, a >Standard B in an A cabinet with the motor screwed down so it would fit, >and a few other peculiar mutts, all listed as untouched originals. How >sad we cannot contact the buyers any longer to send them a warning >missive. > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
