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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 2:52:04 PM on 16 May 2014.
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 Blingbling81
 Location: Noosa, QLD
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Hi All I picked this up recently with original manual and tapestry speaker and antenna. I was just wondering if anyone has any info on it as it seems to be American but has a label on the inside dated 1928 and says Australian GE company so way this imported for the Australian market or is it Australian? Cheers.

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 MonochromeTV
 Location: Melbourne, VIC
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Its actually an RCA model 60 and I believe they were imported from the US for the Australian GE Company. They would've been modified either here or in the US to suit our 230VAC, 50Hz.

RCA 60 Radio
 
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By the time the Model 60 was brought to Australia AWA had the rights to the Radiolette, Radiotron and Radiola trademarks.

In Australia the Radiola name was omitted from marketing material though it was kept for the rest of the world where RCA receivers were sold. AGE would simply rebrand AWA receivers after import restrictions started to apply.

AWA used Radiolette upto around 1950 and the other names upto the mid 1970s.


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