| Aw: Lorenz community receiver? [Beitrag #13505 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #13504] |
So., 03 Februar 2019 01:42   |
Thunderpelocho
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Hi Bernhard, thanks for the response and your help in general.
The reason I resurrected the search for the origins is that, due to more recent research, I found that Greece had requested from the US, under Marshall plan, lines of credit 5 times between May 1946 and January 1948 in order to purchase 'surplus property'. All requests were approved. The surplus equipment was the responsibility of the US 'Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner' and included war reparations. The reference is page 274 here.https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20184/v184.pdf
Then, reading carefully the transfer of ownership agreement, it makes reference to the original loan agreement which states:
...the United States owns a certain limited number of radio sets together with accessory equipment which it has allocated on loan to various Communities in Greece through Loan Agreements with the Mayors or Presidents of the respective Communities...
So, unless I am reading this wrong, initially the receivers were on loan and then finally donated. I am not sure if the lawyers wanted a 'trial period' to see if the terms of the condition are followed or if the US had these radios from before as e.g. surplus equipment.
I am just not sure what is going on. This is a difficult period to look for answers as the ECA was becoming MSA (mutual security agency), Lorenz was just about to become Schaub-Lorenz and factories were moving around and the US Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner was forced to fire-sale remaining equipment.
Of course all questions would be answered if I could find some more information as to the contract or order that Lorenz made these under. Perhaps this is a dream, but it is hard to believe that more than 1000 radios were made without a paper trail. I don't know where to look for that. I have the names of the technical directors of Lorenz from British interrogations but unfortunately it seems that there is little info on Lorenz radios outside Germany. I am now trying to reach museums in Germany to see if anybody knows anything. Obviously my aim is to restore this radio and any technical drawings would be extremely helpful.
I will take a picture of the writing on the glass scale under the tape and post it here.
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