21-02-2016, 08:08 PM
(20-12-2015, 11:31 AM)Old Sparky Wrote: then a 'Westminster' version of the Perdio Portable Radio which had a rotary tuning dial at the top RH side, a Telescopic aerial (Why-it was only MW/LW?)...Car radios were still fairly unusual in the early '60s, and, while some cars without them were fitted with a telescopic aerial connected to a flying lead, not all were by any means. The telescopic aerial on a MW/LW radio could be poked through an open window to give some sort of reception when the radio was in a car, so long as someone was available to hold it in position: that's its only usefulness that occurs to me.
