Sparton Radios

Again, I want to apologize for the poor quality of these pictures. I will upload better ones as I have time to take them with my digital camera.

Sparton was the brand name for the Sparks-Withington Company of Jackson, Michigan. It started out in the year 1900 making small stamped metal parts and soon was making parts for the growing automobile industry. In 1925, they started making radios and became a big radio manufacturer in the 1930s. They later branched into Televisions after the war, but stopped making radios and televisions in 1958. They changed the name from Sparks-Withington Company to Sparton Electronics in 1956 and are still in buisness designing, engineering and manufaturing for the aero-space and medical fields. They can be found at http://www.sparton.com of course.

One of the main reasons I'm interested in Sparton is that they were the biggest company to use the "Technidyne" circuit. Read more about this amazing circuit here.