Radio

My new purchase, I spotted this on an Auction site a 1950's Ultimate Valve Radio.
Ultimate was a local New Zealand company that manufactured Radiograms and other electric appliances, alas like allot of local company's they have now gone the way of the Dodo.

Anyway, why would you buy an old AM valve radio? I here you say, well I suppose a bit of nostalgia and I have always had a love for old valve radios since I was a kid. The smell, the design, the low hum they make, now the reason I grabbed this particular radio was my Granddad owned one the same, sadly over the years of moving around it disappeared, probably left behind somewhere in one of our many moves from house to house.
I loved that radio so when I spotted this one I had to have it, sixty dollars, not bad I thought it's in very good condition and works perfectly.

So I got it home and set it up on an old oak desk in my lounge, the large round Bakelite dials, the dark wooden body that low hum as I tuned into a station.
It is amazing how just the smell or touch of something from your youth triggers memory's from your past I remember waking up on Sunday morning going into the lounge switching on the radio to tune into the Sunday morning kids programs... perfect hmmmm I have my eye on another one now :-)