First automobile radio on record was built in 1922 by one William Lear of Quincy, Ill., who sold it to a doctor from Kahoka, Mo. The doctor drove all the way to Los Angeles and back without tuning in anything, later found that the power plug had been put in backwards. First regular factory production did not come until 1927, long after cabinet sets had squealed their way permanently into the U. S. Home. Through 1927 a modest score per day were built by a little concern now a subsidiary of Philco Radio...
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