Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bud Glass, who writes:
I am attempting to find out more information about this particular radio [see above]. The photo is from around 1959–no idea how old the radio is.
Thanks, Bud. I did a little research and it appears this photo was taken of Elvis while he was traveling in Germany. The radio has a familiar design from the era with a large speaker and round, front-facing tuning dial. I can’t make out the manufacturer’s name in the image.
Post readers: Please comment if you can help Bud ID this portable radio!
Forget everything I’ve said above ha ha ha
It’s a Philips Georgette LD380AB
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_georgette_ld380ab_ld_380.html
Good fun that 🙂
Excellent sleuthing, Tony!
It’s a Grundig Transistor-boy, though exactly which one I can’t work out. Most have the speaker grill frame going up over the top to the function buttons, where this one doesn’t.
Or a Grundig Drucktasten-Boy with a soft strap – though the Grundig writing is slightly wrong as it is angled rather than flat.
If anything it is a cross between the Transistor-boy and Teddy-boy which didn’t have the frequency dial on the front.