c.1958 Bell Products "Hit Parade"
Shirt pocket radio, nylon cabinet
3 7/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches / 99 x 63 x 29 mm
One transistor, one diode
Two 1.5-volt AAA cells
Manufactured by Bell Products, St. Louis, MO
An earphone-only radio. Who else but Bell Products would come up with a ONE-transistor radio? Both the transistor and the glass diode in my example are unidentifiable. The tuning dial markings ( "1"—"14") correspond to nothing, neither in meters nor in kilohertz. But the cabinet plastic is nylon rather than ABS, and that's a nice thing.
This really does appear to be a 1958 radio — I would have thought it came a bit later — see the ads shown below.
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