What's that old Logo..?

[LizzieMaine]

It occurs to me that the Radio Manufacturers Association used a three letter-and-lightning bolt logo during the late '30s/early '40s in connection with their servicemen's certification program. Participating radio repairmen would be issued a patch to be worn on the back of overalls or jackets -- maybe this was it?

I can't find any examples of it online, but it did appear often in trade publications. It was a very simple layout if I recall correctly -- the letters R-M-A in a simple sans-serif typeface with a lightning bolt passing behind them at an angle. I don't remember the logo itself as being circular, but the patch might have been.

 

[splatt]

Here is a brochure I found on Flickr from the 1931 gathering of the RMA Trade Show and Convention that contains their logo...

Note: The link above contains the image in various sizes

 

[BellyTank]

Thanks Cobber- thanks all but I'm gonna give up, admit defeat
and say that it -was- RCA and that I'm deluded about the one
I'm trying to find.

But...


Thanks.


B
T

 

[Buddy]

The logo you've described makes me think of an early RKO animated logo where the letters R K O are being dropped in over the lightning bolts, sort of like this one but with the RKO at the top (can't find that one):

But if you saw it on a jacket as a logo, could it have been one of these two early NBC logos?

Mike

PS Hi! I'm new.



**Edited to move the image links to Flickr.

 

[Buddy]

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