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[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 4/16/99 4:52 PM, Larry Knapp at Lawrence_P_Knapp at EMAIL.WHIRLPOOL.COM
wrote:

>     We forget that the way
>     Howard Anthony started the kit business, as we know it, was to
>     purchase lots of government surplus parts, put those together into a
>     box so we could purchase a scope or vtvm or whatever.

Well, sort of.

Heath got its start long before that shipment of government surplus tubes.

Heath had a kit airplane back in the 1930's, long before the FAA had
rules to certify such aircraft. That's how the company got started and
survived until just after WW II.

The electronic kit business was a result of a windfall on surplus tubes.
The company just had to figure out what to do with them. The O-1 scope
was born and the rest is history.




Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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