Valve car radio, Australian tuning dial, Bakelite face surround perfect. 4 matching bakelite knobs, phillips valves, 1 mullard. 1 red body phillips ek32 circa 1945-1948- this could date radio.

Price is a bottle of beer.

Please reply if interested. I am in Brisbane.

Price is a bottle of beer.

I am in Brisbane.

Presumably XXXX

Here in Queensland we have evolved, crawled out of the slime and are now drinking overpriced beer from many countries, but we will take whatever is going for free....

I still dont know how xxxx qualifies as beer.

Could you be persuaded to post the radio?

Yes, if you can pay postage, it weighs a veritable ton, the backing plate with air holes weighs like a small cast iron frying pan. Usual disclaimers about damage. I have not done this before, my motivation is trying to get this to someone who appreciates it or can use the parts.

I have not seen one this old before, the writing on the dial is perfectly legible and I have not tried to turn it as the tuning needle can sometimes scratch off the lettering. The next oldest I saw was in a Bristol 401 racing car.

Please advise how we can exchange contact details as I am a virgin on this website!

PS about XXXX beer, after tasting the old Brisbane Bitter I can stand XXXX, they didn't call it Brisbane River for nothing.

Always found Tooheys Old the only beer I could hold down though I never drank enough to fully acquire the taste for beer. Give me a JD or Wild Turkey any day though.

It's really interesting to see the late art deco design of that fascia on a car radio. When car interiors were decorated like "rooms" or railway compartments, not capsules. Design soon moved over to the cockpit style that I think of as "art teco".

Maven

There's no flair in dashboards of cars these days. Everything is black or grey and imagination is only reflected in the number of blue LEDs they are flooding the area with and by how awful they can make the instruments look.

Whilst it looks futuristic it does nothing for functionality. Instruments look best with white markings on a black background and an orange or green needle - they are this colour scheme in aircraft cockpits for safety reasons. And remember when the family Holden could be had with light grey, red, green, blue or maroon coloured dash and matching upholstery? They were the days.

Maven- yes my neighbours had a car with gimbal mounted silver bud vases in it, you had plenty of time to admire them as the car had a top speed of about 50mph. I rather like Tooheys old or new and Jack Daniels and lots of red wine.

I have a white radio somewhere like the one just featured. Last time I plugged it in it was going. I will ask about ways of cleaning it up on this forum one day as it is full of nicotine.

When ocean liners were still the benchmark for comfortable travel, car marketing types decided to name large 4-door models "saloons", to evoke the comfort of armchairs, carpets, ashtrays, fold-down drinks trays and plenty of legroom. Not sure what a saloon car is these days. Individual video screens ? Surely not a sub-woofer to pulverize the passengers' brains.

Maven

Not sure what a saloon car is these days.

I guess it's the "stretch limo".

From what I've heard, XXXX is significantly better than Foster's. As this youtube video discusses. Up here in the USA the Foster's is brewed in Canada IIRC, and isn't that bad...

Back to car radios, not having preset pushbuttons would mean that the driver would end up fumbling with the radio while trying to not hit something while driving...

I remember back to when I started drinking each state here had its own favourite beers. KB, Reschs and Tooheys had a stronghold in NSW and the ACT. XXXX (pronounced fourex) was popular up in QLD. VB and Fosters was popular in Victoria, Swan was popular in WA, West End was popular in SA and the NT and TAS was stuck with Boags and Cascade, and the popularity of these two beers depended on where you lived - one was popular in the north of the state and the other popular in the south. I'm not sure which was which though.

Most of the above products (or those that are still made) are made by only two companies now. SAB Millar (South Africa) ownes Carlton & United Breweries, the maker of Fosters and VB and Kirin (Japan) owns Lion Nathan, the maker of Tooheys.

We had another beer company, Tooth & Co., which hasn't made any beer for yonks and spent its dying years under heavy attack from the Tax Office. Tooth owned Sydney's Kent Brewery which was later absorbed by Carlton. Tooth also owned pubs - lots of them and these are now owned by Woolworths, along with about 20,000 poker machines.

If I remember correctly "You get more than just good beer at your Tooths Hotel"

And "Reschs refreshes". (Couldn't drink the stuff myself.)