General Electric Co, code:33173 means :factory in Owensboro KY x-KENRAD factory .
KenRad factory Owensboro . In 1945 Burlew sold the remainder of the company, the tube division, to General Electric and became GE's primary tube making facility
Owensboro is the home of Ken-Rad, the South's only manufacturer of electric lamp bulbs and radio tubes. Daily capacity is 30,000 lamps and 85,000 tubes.
In 1945 Burlew sold the remainder of the company, the tube division, to General Electric and became GE's primary tube making facility
old GE facility
few years ago
TELEFUNKEN
Great
Sounding WEST GERMAN workhorse single tube, reproduces sound with
accurate tonality. Superb choice for hifi preamps and Guitar Amps. The
E83CC Long-Plate Design s a SUPERIOR-CLASS 12AX7 Low-Noise rated long-life tube made to last 10,000 HOURS OR MORE.
E83CC is Siemens Halske Munich West Germany's answer to the ECC803S!
BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING E83CC 12AX7 TUBE AS DISPLAYED
NEAR "TROPHY-QUALITY" CONDITION & PERFORMANCE
LONG-LIFE
ECC803S VERSION WAS OFFERED BY SIEMENS HALSKE MUNICH IN THE 1960's as
their version competing against the Telefunken ECC803S. Since Siemens
couldn't use the Telefunken nomenclature they devised the E83CC instead,
to signify a "Special Class" of 12AX7
YOU CAN SEE THE SIEMENS HALSKE WEST GERMAN 1966 ACID CODES ≠ IN THE GLASS ON TUBE
REAL SIEMENS FACTORY CODES:
E0O ≠6B = 1966
≠ is the symbol of the Siemens Halske Munich W. Germany factory
Raytheon
"Ray" comes from "rai," an Old
French word that means "a beam of light," while "theon" comes from the
Greek and means "from the gods
