![]() Neither have tags so I don’t know the voltage. I have two more of these that I have not got to working with yet. The expense of dry cells would be prohibitive, so wet cells were used and needed to be recharged. “Lots of radios in this time period were 6- or 12-volt, and the amp draw was too high to use dry cells. This would include radios back in the day when REA had not reached lots of homes yet, so this would have been sold with a radio to a customer who did not have electricity yet. As an ex-Wards employee, I know that Airline was Ward’s trade name for their home entertainment items. It is a 6-volt unit with battery ignition. I have one with a Montgomery Ward tag on it that says Wards Airline. “I believe they were developed and sold to charge batteries for the home owner as opposed to a military application. We noted that small generators like the Tiny Tim were inspired by efforts to supply like-type units for military use, prompting the following note from reader Ken Karrow, who writes: ![]() ![]() ![]() Schmidt sent photos published in the October/November 2017 issue of a Tiny Tim 12-volt, 300-watt generator powered by a 1/2 hp 4-stroke engine, asking if readers knew more about the units.
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