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Originally Posted by Richard_FM
I heard that Roberts made MW/LW radios for the home office for use in prisons, I guess they made the same models for general sale due to the economy of scale.
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I think that's been confirmed as just an urban legend - the main model in question was the Rambler, quite popular outside prisons, and the name doesn't seem a likely choice if the model were mainly for incarcerated folk! The explanation that I recall for its popularity "inside" was that both telescopic aerials and cylindrical cells were forbidden, which more or less restricted the market to a few UK-made MW/LW sets employing PP9s.
Paul