Blue Spot: choice of the conoisseur
Object
Brochure
Production date
1955 - 1965
Object number
2017.115
Physical Description
Brochure for Blue Spot (Blaupunkt) radios and radiograms from the end of the 1950s or early 1960's.
Colour brochure of 14 pages featuring a range of products: car radios, radiograms with cocktail cabinets. Brochure includes photgraphs and descriprion of each product and illustrations.
The Blue Spot radiogram was considered the best by the Caribbean community who moved to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. The radio and record player provided a means of entertainment in the home, away from the racism often encountered in public bars and clubs. The short wave radios were capable of receiving radio signals from as far away as the Caribbean.
See object 2010.90 (W) Blue Spot radiogram in Hackney museum collection
Colour brochure of 14 pages featuring a range of products: car radios, radiograms with cocktail cabinets. Brochure includes photgraphs and descriprion of each product and illustrations.
The Blue Spot radiogram was considered the best by the Caribbean community who moved to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. The radio and record player provided a means of entertainment in the home, away from the racism often encountered in public bars and clubs. The short wave radios were capable of receiving radio signals from as far away as the Caribbean.
See object 2010.90 (W) Blue Spot radiogram in Hackney museum collection
Material
Paper
Dimension
height: 21cm
width: 29.5cm
width: 29.5cm
On display?
No
Inscription
There are few things you buy for your home which demand the blending of so many technical skills, and so many intricate technical components as a radio or radiogram. Few things are designed to give you so much rewarding pleasure in the background of your home and family. For those reasons alone the choice of a radio instrument is one over which it will pay you to take the utmost care.
Millions of satisfied customers, in all parts of the world have bought BLUESPOT on its reputation alone but few perhaps are aware of how this reputation has been established by patient research, technical knowledge and vigorous testing at every stage of manufacture.
Buy BLUESPOT — and you buy satisfaction, for in BLUESPOT manufacture there is never any compromise in the effort to ensure that the highest quality standards are invariably maintained.
BLUESPOT
BLAUPUNKT-WERKE GMBH - HILDESHEIM
BLUESPOT
CHOICE OF THE CONNOISSEUR
PORTABLES . RADIOS . RADIOGRAMS . CAR RADIOS
BLUESPOT
ARKANSAS DE LUXE STEREO
Justify popular with an ever-widening circle of enthusiasts the ARKANSAS DE-LUXE offers you reproduction which is astonishingly near perfection. The unique speaker system consists of two separate sound chambers with 10½’ X 7’ Suprakustik forward facing speakers and 4’ tweeters at each side. This system, which provides fascinatingly rich stereo effects, Provides a perfect link with the 2 X 6W dual channel stereo output stages fed by a Garrard automatic changer. The modern polyester finish walnut cabinet is greatly enhanced by the illuminated speaker bafflers and cocktail cabinet. Easy access to the record changer is provided by the slide-out drawer.
BLUESPOT
BARCELONA EXPORT STEREO
This beautifully designed concert console provides superb stereo radio, stereo record changer and a two-door illuminated cocktail cabinet. Impeccable reception on 4 wavebands VNF-FM. AM and two SW bands; built-in revolving Ferrite aerial for directional tuning and interference-free reception. Short wave logging scale for simplified tuning on the two short wave bands. The pull out record changer facilities the play back of all types of record. Socket provided for stereo tape recorder. Built-in BLAUPUNKT Stereo decoder for reception of stereo broadcast programmes.
Extension Speaker Type ES1
Already popular with the real enthusiast BLUESPOT Extension Speakers are designed to provide an even greater thrill and impact from stereo reproduction. They are recommended to be used with 2 BLUESPOT Speakers — one Suprakustik 10¼ X 7’ PM speaker. Beautifully designed to blend with contemporary room decor. Attractive high gloss finish. Dimensions 29’ X 18’ X 11½’
Millions of satisfied customers, in all parts of the world have bought BLUESPOT on its reputation alone but few perhaps are aware of how this reputation has been established by patient research, technical knowledge and vigorous testing at every stage of manufacture.
Buy BLUESPOT — and you buy satisfaction, for in BLUESPOT manufacture there is never any compromise in the effort to ensure that the highest quality standards are invariably maintained.
BLUESPOT
BLAUPUNKT-WERKE GMBH - HILDESHEIM
BLUESPOT
CHOICE OF THE CONNOISSEUR
PORTABLES . RADIOS . RADIOGRAMS . CAR RADIOS
BLUESPOT
ARKANSAS DE LUXE STEREO
Justify popular with an ever-widening circle of enthusiasts the ARKANSAS DE-LUXE offers you reproduction which is astonishingly near perfection. The unique speaker system consists of two separate sound chambers with 10½’ X 7’ Suprakustik forward facing speakers and 4’ tweeters at each side. This system, which provides fascinatingly rich stereo effects, Provides a perfect link with the 2 X 6W dual channel stereo output stages fed by a Garrard automatic changer. The modern polyester finish walnut cabinet is greatly enhanced by the illuminated speaker bafflers and cocktail cabinet. Easy access to the record changer is provided by the slide-out drawer.
BLUESPOT
BARCELONA EXPORT STEREO
This beautifully designed concert console provides superb stereo radio, stereo record changer and a two-door illuminated cocktail cabinet. Impeccable reception on 4 wavebands VNF-FM. AM and two SW bands; built-in revolving Ferrite aerial for directional tuning and interference-free reception. Short wave logging scale for simplified tuning on the two short wave bands. The pull out record changer facilities the play back of all types of record. Socket provided for stereo tape recorder. Built-in BLAUPUNKT Stereo decoder for reception of stereo broadcast programmes.
Extension Speaker Type ES1
Already popular with the real enthusiast BLUESPOT Extension Speakers are designed to provide an even greater thrill and impact from stereo reproduction. They are recommended to be used with 2 BLUESPOT Speakers — one Suprakustik 10¼ X 7’ PM speaker. Beautifully designed to blend with contemporary room decor. Attractive high gloss finish. Dimensions 29’ X 18’ X 11½’