A Revelation in Production

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 11, 27 September 1929, Page 2

A Revelation in Production

OTHING could be more indicative of the tremendous popularity of radio receiving sets nowadays than the following figures supplied by a wellknown Australian and New Zealand firm concerning their manufacture. In the production of their last seagon’s receivers no fewer than 4,156,000 parts were used, involving 10,000,000 operations in their manufacture. Their variable condensers completed during the same period involved 1,860,000 parts and 5,630,000 operations, while eight tons of brass and two tons of aluminium were necessary for their construction. In the making of their transformers the parts numbered 4,069,000 and the operations 5,686,000. Three tons of copper wire, measuring 41,450 miles in length, and $2 tons of iron and transformer sheets were used. The above figures give some idea of the universal appeal that radio makes to the public, and certainly shows that in a few years’ time the household without a radio set will indeed bé a rarity, ,