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Originally Posted by etype2
I have two sources that say Admiral manufactured 1000 15 inch color sets in 1953-54 and in April began shipping a “second series” of sets.
Westinghouse started production of the H840CK15 on January 10, 1954. They were “producing two dozen sets a day” and in production for 6 months. Even if one halved that production rate (slow start up, and slow downs) the production would be 2160 sets.
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Going by surviving sets those numbers don't seem accurate. There's 178 known surviving CT-100s, 30 Westinghouse H840CK15s, and only 6 Admiral C1617As.
If survival rates were identical there'd be 2x as many surviving Westinghouse sets and 6x as many Admirals...I can believe that big of a difference in the Westinghouse, but the Admiral would need to be infamous for a recall, bad reliability (compared to the other sets), or something to explain a production that high and survival rate that dismal.
There are hand made prototypes with the same or better number of surviving sets than the Admiral.