Reference
Z1390/1/Ad6
Title
Programme
Date free text
Sep 1932
Production date
From: 1932 To: 1932
Scope and Content
Programme of the Leighton Buzzard Radio & Electrical Exhibition at the Temperance Hall held by Griffin Brothers ("The Original Griffins"); with photographs of the exterior of 11 High Street and 63 North Street and the charging department inside 63 North Street. Displays were as follows:
• Stand 1: General Electric Company cookers and other household appliances;
• Stand 2: Cryselco lamps;
• Stand 3: Pye wireless sets;
• Stand 4: Mullard master valve;
• Stand 5: Murphy wireless sets;
• Stand 6: Lucas electrical car equipment;
• Stand 7: Electric light shades;
• Stand 8: Portadyne portable wireless sets;
• Stand 9: Henley Cable;
• Stand 10: Exide and Drydex batteries;
• Stand 11: Philco balanced radio;
• Stand 12: Kolster-Brandes wireless sets;
• Stand 13: Cossor - "the valve with a mica bridge";
• Stand 14: General Electric Company radios;
• Stand 15: Tucker switches;
• Stand 16: Rawlplugs;
• Stand 17: Bargain stall;
• Stand 18: Wireless sets by Marconi, McMichael, Lotus, Phillip, Ultra and Burgoyne as well as Electrolux refrigerators.
• Stand 19: a seven foot model yacht;
• Stand 20: Wireless sets of historic interest including the first one made in the district (presumably by Ron Griffin) in 1920
Level of description
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