The first car radios didn't appear - in the USA - until 1930. So says
the not-always-infallible wikipedia. As a result, the note following
the entry will read
/Thanks to the expertise to be found on the Web, we are reasonably sure
that this radio was British-made, by a firm called Hoare and Jagels who
marketed several radios under the trade-name of Rolls in the second half
of the 1920s, but who ceased trading in 1931-2./
/Alastair W/
On 06/01/2017 11:29, Roger Allton wrote:
>
> Two questions as I see them:
>
> Does the Rolls Royce on display have a radio fitted? If so.............
>
> Did Carrie mean " The radio fitted to the Rolls?"
>
>
> Happy new year.
>
> Roger Allton
>
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> *From:* To exchange information and views on the life and work of
> Rudyard Kipling <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Alastair
> Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* 02 January 2017 13:52
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Carrie Kiplings Diaries - Query re Radios
> Quite fascinating - truly. But, at the risk of looking a most welcome
> gift horse in the mouth - where did the Rolls company come from, I
> wonder? - the radiomusuem web-site doesn't have an e-address so that
> one can ask questions (or not that I could see).
> /Alastair/
>
> On 02/01/2017 12:34, Mary Hamer wrote:
>> http://www.radiomuseum.co.uk/suitcase.html
>> Rolls Portable - Radio Museum
>> <http://www.radiomuseum.co.uk/suitcase.html>
>> www.radiomuseum.co.uk
>> This radio dates from before 1930; perhaps 1926 or 27. Like most if
>> not all radios of that date it does not have a tuning dial engraved
>> with station names ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Found by applying to Radio Attic on the web!
>>
>> Mary
>>
>>
>>> On 2 Jan 2017, at 10:23, Alastair Wilson <[log in to unmask]
>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Cab someone enlighten me, please? There's an entry in Carrie's
>>> diary (Aug. 13 1927) as follows: "Rud greatly enjoys his Rolls
>>> wireless and the excellent music he has in the evening". I assume
>>> that Rolls was the name of the manufacturer, and my guess is that it
>>> was an American firm. Frank Doubleday ('Effendi') had given the
>>> Kiplings a "wireless set with no outdoor connections" the previous
>>> year (Carrie's diary, June 16, 1926), which I take to mean that it
>>> did not require the large oudoor aerial which most sets required in
>>> those early days of voice radio.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if Rolls, Inc (or something like it) was a known
>>> maker of radio sets in those days? - Google is unable to help,
>>> although it does name two corporations in the electronics business -
>>> but one dates from the 1960s and the other from 1989.
>>>
>>> /Alastair Wilson/
>>>
>>
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