01-04-2011, 06:49 PM
I don't have one but I do have a couple of the Little Maestros in brown mottled Bakelite that the cabinet was adapted from. This truly was a long-lived design; the only apparent differences between the Pilot cabinet and the ones sold by various suppliers in PW (it was sold as a kit by a number of firms, also as a cabinet with chassis, in both brown Bakelite and white Urea Formaldehyde) are the added side extensions to the louvres and the removal of the moulded 'Pilot' name just below the scale opening. The versions in wood cabinets were also plundered by the PW sellers for their cabinets. Pilot produced several differently housed Little Maestro designs in the early 1950s but as far as I remember, none of the newer designs were ever used by kit suppliers.
A very neat little set, whatever the source.
-Tony
A very neat little set, whatever the source.
-Tony
