RADIO EXHIBITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 9

RADIO EXHIBITION

MANUFACTURERS’ TRUMP CARD (Bv Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 3rd September. While television is, of course, the great outstanding feature of this year’s Radio Exhibition, it is not a novelty which can assure the commercial success of the radio manufacturers’ annual display. Television sets will only be purchased by those with money to burn. . They are not only costly, but are still in an unstabilised stage of development. On the other hand, ordinary sound receiving sets have within recent years become so stabilised in their design as to leave the manufacturers little scope for presenting the public with innovations of sufficient attraction to ensure widespread scrapping of old instruments. This year, however, the manufacturers do possess one trump card which may be relied upon to secure unusually large sales. It is the popularising of the all-wave receiver. Sets cf undoubted efficiency and simplicity of manipulation, which bring in the short wave stations of America and more distant parts of the world with almost as good definition as they do the better-known stations of the Continent, are this year placed within the reach of a'l.