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Originally Posted by Steve McVoy
In England, there were apparently magazine articles about the subject, though I've never seen one. I've been told that a number of repair shops did destroy sets for that reason, but have no documentation of that.
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I've never seen such an article in the UK but I've never really looked for one. These sets were known as "widow makers" here in the UK and I'm sure that too many TV techs died. I know people who have smashed up plenty of early TVs but this was because they were large lumps of useless junk.
Imagine 1955 and you're a TV dealer who has just taken a large pre-war TV in part-exchange for the latest 14" or 17" set. The new sets are giving big, bright pictures in small cabinets. Nobody is going to want a big, dim, unreliable pre-war set, even at a bargain price so it's going to get smashed up. Sounds unpleasant but that's real life.