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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Unnumbered Page

DUAL PURPOSE MDEL 40 2 GOLNBUS A PORIABLE Self-Contaned Batteies 0% 230-Volt Powe What Are Its Special Virtues? 600 700 B00 900 1200 ISoo1 COLumbuS Columbus Model 402 is a new type of radio which combines the operating features of an orthodox 230-volt home receiver with those of a portable radio powered from self-contained dry batteries. In Its cabinet it carries a power flex for plugging into the standard household power point, and by simply setting the central" knob at the position marked AC" (alternating current), Model 402 will operate in the same way as any ordinary home radio. USED IN THIS WAY, THERE IS NO DRAIN UPON ITS BATTERIES. For use where 230-volt power is nct available, Model 402 carries light-weight dry batteries in the battery compartment of its cabinet: With the central knob set at the position "BATTERY; it operates from its battery power with the same efficiency as when plugged into the household power point, No aerial connections are required. From a high-gain loop aerial built into the cabinet, Model 402 tunes Australian and New Zea- PRICE : F36-0-0 (including batteries) land broadcasting stations as efficiently as any home radio. Available on convenient terms purchase That Extra Radio In summer it can be used on the lawn, in the garden, at the bach, In Your Home? by the seaside anywhere at all if an electric point is avail- able, well then good but if there is no power at hand, then Model 402 has its own power supply in its self-contained batteries. The joy which Model 402 can bring to your home is truly boundless: In that way Model 402 is a REAL spare radio for YOUR home_ AS AN EXTRA OR SPARE RADIO, IT IS OBVIOUSLY MORE USE- FUL THAN ANY STRAIGHT-OUT ELECTRIC MODEL: Easily carried UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED FOR 12 MONTHS from room to room, it can be plugged to any power point without THROUGHOUT NEW ZEALAND fuss or bother about aerial arrangements MOREOVER, IT CAN BE USED (on battery operation) IN ANY ROOM WHICH LACKS A POWER POINT: NATION-WIDE SERVICE: Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton , Paeroa, COLUMBUS Rotorua, Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier , Hastings, Dannevirke , Tai- hape, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, Wellington , Blenheim , Nelson , Greymouth, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Gore, Invercargill. RAD/O Kq