Thread: Wind-up Radio?
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Old 22nd Sep 2022, 8:01 pm   #4
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Default Re: Wind-up Radio?

There weren't, as far as I know, any "wind up" lifeboat/liferaft transmitters, but they were usually hand cranked and in use until the 1970s. I sailed on several ships which had hand cranked Marcon Salvita lifeboat transmitters.
The transmitter in the film, with its top crank handle was probably a "Gibson girl".
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