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21st Dec 2010, 5:27 pm | #1 |
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The return of Radiomobile
In our local independent Auto Electrical Shop' window today, I have seen a (typical
modern Radio/CD Player) and a pair of In-Car Speakers, both bearing the once famous 'Radiomobile' brand name. This has obviously been revived by an importer. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know any more about this? |
21st Dec 2010, 5:46 pm | #2 |
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21st Dec 2010, 5:55 pm | #3 |
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Re: The return of Radiomobile
From that link it looks as through they actually get involved with development work and don't just "box shift" stuff in
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21st Dec 2010, 11:07 pm | #4 |
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21st Dec 2010, 11:14 pm | #5 |
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Re: The return of Radiomobile
Amazing, thought they had gone the same way as Bush, Murphy and all the other proper manufacturers. I used to have Radiomobile valve radios in my cars a year or two ago.
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22nd Dec 2010, 10:05 am | #6 |
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Re: The return of Radiomobile
Radiomobile always used to sub-contract some of their production.
One company that made them being Sidney S Bird, better known for their Cyldon tuner (as well as toy cookers, washing machines etc.) Perhaps they still do the same. |
22nd Dec 2010, 12:11 pm | #7 |
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AFAIK(and I used to work for a Radiomobile Dealer)they never sub-contracted production to Sydney S Bird, although they did use the very good Cyldon push-button tuners in sets produced up to about the mid to late 1970s, and later the awful(IMHO)Bird P.B. tuner, in the 1070XB, etc.
This tuner suffered from slippage when manually tuned, due to the lack of a proper slip-clutch mechanism. As for Bird themselves, I think they went bankrupt in the early 80s, one of the causes being quality control problems with an in-car cassette mechanism they produced. A sad end for a firm who produced many things over the years, including an electronic organ. These new Radiomobile products look to be far eastern, probably Chinese, in origin-only to be expected nowadays. From the 70s to the 90s, Radiomobile sourced some products from abroad, e.g. the 104 & 108SR 8 track players were Italian(Voxson), whilst the 308 & 309CSR Radio/Cassette Players were rebadged SANYO products. Later models were produced by FUNAI, also Japanese. |
23rd Jan 2011, 11:54 am | #8 |
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23rd Jan 2011, 2:17 pm | #9 |
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Re: The return of Radiomobile
Their website says Radiomobile was formed in 1953 - it was actually 1946 as a joint Gramophone Company (EMI) / Smiths, then became wholly Smiths. Nevertheless they always made good products, but in the late 1970s Smiths abandoned many home-made core business products (watches etc) for imports to concentrate on high tech businesses.
I'm looking forward to my Smiths' pension (thankfully not in soggy crisps!) Barry |