Olympic 447 transistor radio from '56

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Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Here's an Olympic model 447 4-transistor radio from circa '56. If you're a small company in the mid '50's and want to get on the transistor radio bandwagon, what do you do? Simple, you take your existing 4-tube portable radio, modify the circuit to use transistors, and mount the transistors in the tube sockets that were on the original tube chassis.

I have not yet tested this radio; but, I'm sure it won't take much work to get it going (assuming that the germanium transistors are good).

I was amazed how well those early four transistor radios worked and sounded.
I had an Emerson and a GE. The GE was a little more desirable, as it used four size "D" flashlight cells, instead of the expensive nine volt packs.