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For me the book serves three areas,
The History of Radio
A Guide to Radio Sets for collectors It portrays a lost style
History
The book details in some depth the development of the technology that enabled wireless communication through to the development of radio receivers. The content is essentially UK related, the international pioneers are not ignored but this is a book telling of the British radio scene. It is easy to read and very well illustrated. As the "golden years" are told the book shows hundreds of photographs of the time. Guide With the comprehensive indexes and chronological layout it is easy to look up a radio and see key features of the set including the original purchase price, number of valves, bands etc. Collectors can identify unknown sets and empty cases by looking through what is almost a catalogue of UK manufactured radio sets. Such information allows collectors to research manufacturers, identify new areas of interest and target collections. Style I can't hope to acquire all the radio sets that I would like, with this book I can at least see photograph after photograph of classic radios. Page 159 of the second edition has a large black and white 1940s photograph of a desk with a young woman sat at it. Through the window is a car, to the right of a table and telephone sits a Murphy Model AD94 in a black bakelite cabinet. The whole scene screams out of a lost style that this book both catalogues and preserves. In my opinion an essential book for the UK radio collector, historian or enthusiast.
