Roberts is a global consumer electronics limited company based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England. It has been producing radios for over 70 years. Initially the company only traded in the United Kingdom, but now exports worldwide. The company has been granted three Royal warrants in its own right, and one via the purchase of Dynatron Radio Ltd, in 1981.
For many years the company's products were the only radios permitted in UK prisons (mainl...
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Roberts is a global consumer electronics limited company based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England. It has been producing radios for over 70 years. Initially the company only traded in the United Kingdom, but now exports worldwide. The company has been granted three Royal warrants in its own right, and one via the purchase of Dynatron Radio Ltd, in 1981.
For many years the company's products were the only radios permitted in UK prisons (mainly because their cases could be easily opened to check for contraband). The Rambler of 1975 MW/LW-only models were designed for this market.
The first models featured a distinctive Aladins lamp fretwork loudspeaker grille, but by the late 1930s the company had settled on an upright box shape set covered in coloured leathercloth with fabric loudspeaker grille - a style that they would keep to and evolve slowly with each progressive model.
The company was the first UK manufacturer to market a radio containing an Integrated Circuit. The RIC1 model...
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