08-06-2015, 10:08 PM
About 50 years ago, I had a Sobell 'Word ranger' multi-band portable. A little bigger than Pocket size, but still quite small. The volume control/on-off switch failed, and, back then, I didn't feel that i wanted to work on the radio myself, so back to the shop it went. They repaired it for, IIRC, the princely sum of 18/6d (92.5p). I forget what the radio cost, maybe something like 13guineas (£13.06), the best part of a week's wages to me at the time! I haven't seen a 'World Ranger' for maybe more than 40 years. Don't know what happened to mine!!
