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Old 28th Sep 2022, 10:05 am   #10
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I think it's simpler than that Dave. They just based the design (particularly the tuning scale) on American world radios of the late 60s like Zeniths. They did get exported to NA, but they turn up all over the world.

We saw a lot of HK radios in Britain because it was technically part of the British Empire until 1997 (the last significant place to be so). The use of the 'Empire' concept had largely ended in the 1950s in Britain itself, but HK manufacturers continued to refer to their products as 'Empire Made'. I think they paid lower UK import duties.
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