The Wireless Boom
The Wireless Boom. A wireless rental shop in north London in November 1936. The BBC has just begun a television service from Alexandra Palace, the sets cost…
Pictures by wireless. Twenty-five miles from the Palace, if you are lucky.
A wireless rental shop in north London in November 1936. The BBC has just begun a television service from Alexandra Palace, the sets cost as much as a small car, and the pictures reach about twenty-five miles. Your customers rent wireless sets for a shilling or two a week. The question is whether any of them will rent a television.
- Starts
- November 1936
- Length
- three years
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Trade profitably for 20 months
- Business
- Wireless & TV Rental
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