(17-03-2015, 11:02 AM)Yorkie Wrote: The upshot of this is that we can reasonably assume that the '684' would have had near enough 50% PT added, which would have upped the retail price from £25.7s2d (say £25.40), to £38. Accounting for the effects of inflation, that equates to £760 today. The cheaper plastic cased '674' with an identical chassis but only one speaker, was £21.7.s11d plus PT = £32.00, equating to £640 today. Certainly more than two weeks wages back then - few ordinary people would have bought such a radio outright, but on HP.
Oh, I don't know about that - attitudes to credit were different back then, and still in the late '60s, when I became old enough to notice, a frequent constituent of conversations between my very "ordinary" parents and of their gossip with neighbours of similar values was the habits of one or two families whose desires so exceeded their incomes that they wound up buying things on the "never-never"!
With the photo showing a mixture of items from a gramophone to a VHS tape, I'll not hazard a guess as to whether they were among the Earl's possessions or the result of a quick trawl of a "collectables" emporium.
Paul
