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Show Vest Pocket Radio Set Soon to Be Manufactured What is described by its creator, an Evanston, 111., radio manufacturing manufactur-ing concern, ' as an Innovation in radio set convenience and utility, is the new vest pocket radio planned for early production To be Inconspicuously carried in vest pocket, shirt pocket, handbag, or concealed about the person, the new vest pocket radio will be several sev-eral times smaller than the smallest camera or personal type radio sets manufactured prior to the war. It will provide good radio reception at all times. Its batteries are self contained, and its aerial is contained in the wire leading to the earpiece. ear-piece. Here will be a radio set of obvious ob-vious appeal. It can easily be carried car-ried to ball games, on the golf course, on . shopping tours anywhere any-where and everywhere. It can be operated anywhere without disturbance dis-turbance to anyone on the street, on trains and planes, even in the quiet of a club or library reading room. The "speaker" or ear-piece will be entirely inconspicuous of the approved ap-proved hearing-aid type. The complete com-plete unit includes radio, batteries, and tubes In the small, marvelously compact case not much larger than a cigarette case. Still engaged entirely in war production, pro-duction, the manufacturers would not state specifically when the new radio would be placed on the market. mar-ket. That lt has passed preliminary prelimi-nary tests with flying colors would seem to Indicate an immediate production pro-duction schedule as soon as existing government production restrictions affecting the entire radio Industry ' are removed. |