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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

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
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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

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]> 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