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Old 9th Sep 2022, 5:36 pm   #1
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Ive had this clock a few months and today i put a new flex on it and it works perfectly.As you will see from the photos it has the provision to turn a radio on or off. Ive never seen a Smiths clock like this before can any tell me anything about it.
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Old 9th Sep 2022, 6:18 pm   #2
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Old 9th Sep 2022, 7:47 pm   #3
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Lovely! I have a couple of similar looking ones, but mine don't have the timer function.
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Old 11th Sep 2022, 7:31 pm   #5
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So this is a radio alarm clock, just bring-your-own-radio?

It makes a great deal of sense given the investment required for a radio, and many may have already had one in the bedroom.
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I had one of those which I gave to my son. I wired it so that it could once again switch a radio on and off. He uses it as a clock but not the alarm function.

A very similar movement was used in a clock radio from the early 50's. I have one somewhere in the attic. As I remember it is a bit better than most alarms as it switches the radio off again and so does not need re-setting every evening. It is in a white case but I cannot remember the manufacturer. I really ought to get it out again
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Old 12th Sep 2022, 9:56 am   #7
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This model is actually quite common, they turn up on eBay quite regularly.

It's called the "Preston" and was available from 1950.

People also connected them to a lamp, either as a wake-up device, or as a burglar deterrent.

There was also a normal electric clock offered, in the same Bakelite case.
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I think that these were often used with a lamp as a wake up device. Decades ago there was a view that being woken up by a light was in some way more healthy or natural, or otherwise better than a bell.

There later followed an electric alarm clock that used a built in lamp to wake the user.
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What about using it with a tape recorder. "Subliminal learning", did anyone try that?

I tried to learn Morse with that technique, I can't say it worked.
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'subliminal learning' during night time was a thing in times past, I experimented with it but to no avail.

The idea seems to have been reinvented in the 21St century as ASMR, which is kinda freaky..
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