Early Car Radios

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Cars started to get radios in the 1930s. This is an advertisement for a 1937 Philips Auto Radio. It was in a different class to our car stereos today. It took up 8 litres of space and weighed 24kg! It had to be mounted to the floor and a wired remote control was fitted to the dashboard.

Opdrachtgever/adverteerder: Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken (Eindhoven) ; i.e. onbekend (unknown), Een Philips Autoradio veraangenaamt den rit en houdt den geest frisch, marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons

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