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Originally Posted by mhardy6647
Whoa that thing is cool! Is that a consumer radio with "pencil" tubes!?
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Yes! it is a Motorola 54L1, which is a "full size" (about 8"x10"x3.5") AC/DC/Battery portable from the mid 50s. I nearly passed it up because of the ugly re-paint job, until I looked inside and saw the unusual "inverted" speaker and the sub-mini tubes! Most of the radios that I have seen with the sub-mini tubes have been much smaller, about the size of "pocket" transistor sets of the era. I suspect that this rather plain Motorola is often overlooked by collectors.
jr