Daily Herald Photograph: Pixytone mains wireless sets

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1950-04-28 in Wiltshire

One photograph of a woman displaying 'Pixytone' mains wireless sets, titled 'World's smallest wireless?'. Caption on back reads: 'ALICE PICKETT, 19-year-old assembly worker, pictured here with models of the 'Pixytone', one of the world's smallest mains wireless sets, at the Ingleburne Products Ltd. factory in Malmesbury, Wilts. These globe-semi-globe models were intended originally to be electric table lighters, but a visitor to the factory jokingly remarked to one of the firm's directors that the neat little gadgets would make fine miniature radio sets. the firm took the joke seriously, and now Pixytones are coming off the assembly line at the rate of 1,000 per week. Five inches high and two pounds in weight, they can be used on mains, in a car, or carried about with a dry battery for power. Not yet available on the home market, the Pixytone is designed to sell for under £6. The model is earning dollars in overseas markets'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/56652
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print