Who Actually Repaired Sixties Pocket Radios?

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There were also hybrid car radios. Transistors for the audio, valves for RF.

Hybrid design hung on a lot longer in TVs. Although Thorn led the world in transistorised colour TVs in 1967 and Philips followed a little later quite a few makers stuck to valves for the line output well into the 1970s.