Re: Bygone radio traders
I was very interested to see the thread about Taylors of Macauley Street, Huddersfield. As a radio enthusiast in my teens in the 1950s, this was by far my favourite shop in the whole of Huddersfield and I well remember the stooped figure of Mr Taylor emerging from a back room to sell me a Bulgin connector or whatever. In later years his daughter took over and I was fascinated to read that she was a former model.
I am wondering if anyone knows anything about another Huddersfield radio shop called Radio Equipment Company, in Market Avenue. All I know is that it was set up by Clifford Stephenson (later a prominent Huddersfield councillor) when he was 21 around 1924. He went on the become chairman of the Radio and Television Retailers' Association.
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