Re: Mystery radio
Looking at all the pictures, I think that one of the RDG sets was the most likely contender. Never seen one of these for sale. I guess most were traded in for TV's or smaller sets and those with the record players would have been made redundant when the 33's and 45's came out. The pickups in most of these early sets must have weighed in at several ounces. My father handed me down a very large radiogram in which he had built the superhet radio, after he bought his beloved Murphy table radio, (which incidentally I still have, and still working after Ed Dining rewound the output transformer for me.). I counterbalanced the pickup arm and played my first 45's on it on the slowest speed I could get. With a steel needle, they did not last long !! I think that was a Garrard player.
The cabinet had the normal cupboards each side for the 78's.
Mike.
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