Re: First time testing. McMichael radio 15th March 1935.
A fantastic account of events, makes for a very interesting read. Very well done saving those diaries, it’s amazing what people chuck away.
I bet there were loads of radios destroyed, I have an Ekco AW88 that I was told was in a house that got bombed during the war, the top of the cabinet had been smashed in, and repaired with a piece of steel screwed along the rear edge to hold it all together, how true that story was I don’t know, but the repairs certainly looked old. I guess a radio was a high value item back then, and insurance might have been unaffordable or not have paid out enough to replace the set, so repairing it like that would have been the most sensible option.
Regards
Lloyd
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