Tricity 'Melodie' Model 620 electric cooker with built-in 7-transistor mains radio
- Made:
- circa 1962-circa 1965
Tricity 'Melodie' Model 620 electric cooker with built-in 7-transistor mains radio. Serial No. MR 44 153. 230-240V. Made by Tricity Cookers Ltd., Enfield, Middlesex. c1962 - c1965.
The Tricity 'Melodie' was an electric cooker with a built-in transister radio. It boasted an improvement over battery-powered radios as it was powered by mains electricity, alongside the cooker. Advertisements from the time called it the 'Housewive's choice' and promised to make the wife's work-day go by faster with the aid of music in the kitchen. An advertisement from March 1962 offered this cooker for just 70 gns.
Details
- Category:
- Domestic Appliances
- Object Number:
- 2001-807
- Materials:
- metal
- Measurements:
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overall: 48.8189 x 21.2598 x 25.9843 in.; 1240 x 540 x 660 mm
- type:
- electric cooker
- credit:
- Clark, D (Mrs)
