Slot Radios
A DEVICE which prevents-a_ hire purchase buyer from using a wireless set unless the appropriate instalment has been paid has been invented by a radio engineer at Hartlepool, Durham. It consists of a time switch which is released by dropping a coin in a slot meter in the set, which operates a spring. When the time arrives for the next payment. the spring will have run down, automatically cutting off the set. Listeners who buy sets with this device attached would, therefore, have to pay. whatever. daily, weekly, or monthly instalments was arranged before they could listen to programmes, . / t
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Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 11, 23 September 1932, Page 2
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102Slot Radios Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 11, 23 September 1932, Page 2
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