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Product Description :
Antique Tesla Electronics Orava Early Television Cathode Ray Tube CRT Pin Badge
- A pretty antique Tesla advertising pin from the 1960's featuring the world famous tesla sine wave logo and the name of the Orava factory that produced the domestic television range. It is made from a gold coloured metal and the badge face is 2.2cm wide and has a long, stick pin fastener to the rear.
Historic Background.
TESLA had a state-sponsored monopoly on electronics production in communist Czechoslovakia, and produced nearly all electronic products in the country until 1989.
The company had a large number of subsidiaries,
- Tesla Karlin, Vrsovice and Strašnice (TV and broadcast industries)
- Tesla Holesovice Hloubětín (bulbs)
- Tesla Liberec (recorders, equipment fire alarm)
- Tesla Kolin (radio),
- Tesla Hradec Kralove (components)
- Tesla Pardubice (tape recorders and transmission equipment)
- Tesla Prelouc (tape)
- Tesla Lanskroun (capacitors and transistors)
- Tesla Vrchlabi (vacuum tubes, LED)
- Tesla Jihlava (car components)
- Tesla Brno (exchanges and amplifiers)
- Tesla Litovel (record players, remote controls)
- Tesla Roznov (vacuum tubes, integrated circuits, televisions)
- Tesla Valasske Mezirici (speakers),
- Tesla Blansko (meters)
- Tesla Bratislava (radio)
- Tesla Orava (TV)
- Tesla Stropkov (phones and PBX)
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