MAINS-DRIVEN SETS.
AMERICAN FIGURES. The number of alternating current radio receiving sets sold in the United States in 3923 increased 456 per cent, over 1927, according to the quarterly survey of stocks in the hands of radio dealers and gross sales prepared by the Department of Com--111 Some of the four and one-half fold increase in the sale of alternating current, sets is accounted for by the reduced sale of ballerv-powered sets, which fell froin 3,143,031* in 1927 to 303,435 in 1923 and from' 73 4 per cent, of the total set sales -to only 13.9 per cent, for 1928. This reduction in battery set. sales has jin important bearing on total retail sales, inasmuch as each battery receiver requires a complement of associated accessories ha vine a value usually equal to that ot -the receiver itself. If the two-remaining quarters of the 1923-29 radio season run nhead of the corresponding quarters o last season at the same l.usiness will be in excess of 650,000,000 dollars. I ■ ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20256, 16 May 1929, Page 15
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