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The Ever Ready Company reverted
to producing only battery radios after WWII. The market for table
models must have been fairly limited but a solid market before
the advent of transistor sets for homes where mains electricity
either wasn't available or where a local generator was used,
for example in the Highlands of Scotland. I remember staying
at a bed and breakfast near Ullapool and being told that when
the last light was switched off the generator would stop. I waited
for ages that night to test this and sure enough as I turned
off the bedside light the generator put-putting stopped and all
was silent.
This radio was made in 1939 and has
an attractive bakelite case which measures only about 12 inches
square and 8 inches deep so would double as a picnic set. It
does not use an accumulator so would have cost the owner a tidy
sum in batteries over its working life.
The perspex cover over the dial
has become clouded with age and needs replacing and because of
the problem of finding a suitable battery I'll need to make a
mains eliminator. |
