Description: Manufactured by the Gramophone subsidiary of EMI, the logo featuring the terrier, with his head leaning into the horn of a gramophon is front and center. The HMV record label was known worldwide and, indeed, during the first few years, the products were marketed as HMV Radiomobile, His Master's Voice or simply Radiomobile. The company name Emitron was used in the United States. With their first model, the pre-transistor Radiomobile 100 released in 1946, a power supply generating as much as 200 volts and an amplifier had to be mounted separately in addition to the receiver and speaker itself. With the advent of transistorized electronics in the 1950s (the transistor having been invented at Bell Labs in the U.S. in 1947), car radios could be manufactured to operate on 12 volts directly, obviating the need for the separate power supply and making installation much more straightforward. High-end car manufactures such as, Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Bristol soon made Radiomobile receivers standard kit, and just about every other British car of note carried them as either standard or optional equipment, including Jaguar, Riley, MG, Rover, Wolseley, Standard, Sunbeam-Talbot and so on.
Price: 800 USD
Location: San Pedro, California
End Time: 2024-12-18T01:24:52.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit Type: Unit
Country/Region of Origin: england
Color: Black
Original/Reproduction: Original
Style: Antique
Unit Quantity: 1
Age: Post-1940
Maker: Gramophone
