Wood and bakelite radio cabinet with record player mod. Marconi 1562 by Marconi Company (La Voce del Padrone, Columbia and Marconiphone), 1940-1941. A piece of Italian Navy and Merchant Marine history. Oak wood cabinet and refined electronics for a radio that was able to accompany the sailors of the golden era of the Modern Navy. The precious lacquered steel turntable with all-bakelite arm completed the system. In its early days, the Marconi Company counted among its first "institutional" customers the Merchant and Military Navies, to which the transceiver equipment it produced was leased ("modern leasing") including operating personnel for the civilian sector only. This involved having training schools allocated at the Marconi Workshops, as in Genoa. In 1928 His Master's Voice (USA), known in Italy as "La Voce del Padrone" (plants in Milan) and which produced gramophones and records, realized that radio would dangerously alter the size of its target market. He decided to buy England's Marconiphone, to quickly supplement the range of products to be offered, including radio sets. Of course, the larger and more powerful company of the two was His Master's Voice, which imposed its own production and design standards, which were very much oriented toward mass standardization. Moreover, the production of a model could be manufactured in one country and marketed anywhere (His Master's Voice, for example, controlled the Pathè brand in France). In Italy, production also included the Columbia brand. Civilian production activity ceased, in Italy, in the late 1960s. Model: Marconi 1562 - La Voce del Padrone. Manufacturer/Brand: La Voce del Padrone, Milan, Italy. Number of tubes: five. Valves general principle: Superheterodyne (in general); ZF/IF 465 kHz. Wave ranges: medium wave (OM) and two short wave ranges (2 x OC). Special features: turntable (not record changer). Operating voltages: alternating current (AC) power supply / 110-275 volts. Speaker: electrodynamic AP (voice coil and excitation/field coil). Console Form: Chairside Radio. Annotations: synthesized series.
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