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RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
The Sale of Wireless Apparatus.
At the present me there is continuing as it has, has not by somewhat of a lull in the demand; any means eliminated the &rols for wireless apparatus, says the tubes from the market. There is! Electric Times, dua "to several still a brisk demand for the larger causes which are not ditheult to tubes and probably will always Pending the publication continue to be. The dry-cell tubos Friedrich Engel, the of the report af the Broadcasting have simply cut their own place President of the Vienna Com-Committee, uncertainty-prevails in the public demand and the mercial Court and of the Unions to the future and would be older type tubes will keep right of Judges, has resigned the latter users are holding back. With the on going. There is ample profit? position, which he held for nearly summer weather and the attrac-to be made from both types. ten years. To-day the average tions of outdoor sports, wireless munibly income of the judges is entertainments do not appeal so From £6 to £8. It is true that readily to the householder. but there are certain judges in the with the coming of the dark highest positions who enjoy about evenings again there should be double that income, but many spurt in trade, and retailers receive even much less than the will be well advised to make average. In an article Dr. Engle arrangements for meeting it. describes the misery among Conditions in America and in judges. There are cases in which, England are different, but in the together with their wives and main the principles governing children, they suffer hunger there sales are ti e sums, and we quote are also cases of clothes literally falling to pieces, so that a benet of an article which appeared in the Electregist, which contain factor had to dress one judge some sound commonsense. from bead to foot.
For the sixth consecutive year Buick has been assigned first place at the National Automobile Shows which will be held in the United States during January 1924.
As has been the case in previous years, the choice of positions was made on the basis of the greatest dollar volume of business done by manufacturers during the year at hand. The fact that Buick has been given first place six times in succession is convincing evidence of Buick's leadership, and the leadership of General Motors, in the automotive world.
Buick is now producing over 1000 cars a day-the greatest production in its history.
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Nor has the development of the vacuum tube, the new circuits and the new piecas of apparatus put the modest crystal set out of business. Dealers have always done a very fair business with! crystal sets and parts, and begin. ners, youngsters, will probably always continue to start their radio careers with the crystal sets. There are even some de velopments that may make the crystal set a real factor in the world of radio reception.
It is quite impossible to make Radio sets and parts are company suggestions as to the kind and paratively quick-moving goods, quantity of stocks to be carried. says the writer. Compared to any suggestions would certainly number of other articles of mer-not be applicable to all parts of chandise they are inexpensive. the country. In sections within can be well displayed and demon-fifteen miles of a powerful broad- strated, and a great deal of news- | casting station crystal sets paper and magazine publicity and parts should, of course, form: helps to keep up the interest. In 23 very substantial part of the addition to these helps the actual stock. While it may not mest se broadcasting, which is continually much of an outlay in money is a improving, is a great seller of corresponding stock of tube set parts equipment and complete parts and equipment get it is Sets. The dealer who is expecting goods that tuniover rapidly and i to take advantage of all these hare a good margin of profil. various helps must be prepared to take care of the normal demand. The varieties in sets are so great that while the dealer cannot be jexpected to take down from his shelves the exact article asked for by every customer, yet he can fill Practically all orders and sometimes persuade the customer 10 take something which he has in stock rather than go shopping alsewhere or wait till it can be ordered from the jobber.
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Tube sets and equipment should be carried in all cases, because there are always those who want to get out of the local field and into DX work. The unit sales of the tube ser are greater and it is less trouble to sell a dollar's worth than with smaller and cheaper equipment.
The demand for transmitting apparatus will depend a great deal on how far radio enthusiasra has extended in the territory.
Salling radio apparatus from The dealer can keep pretty close band to mouth or practielly on
check on the demand by keeping an accurate record of all parts consignment will never make any profits for the dealer. Radi is called for that are out of stock.
It is absolutely essential that one of those things, that gets the i public quick and gets him bard.the dealer keep up-to-date on new When he has had a pleasant circuit. Some of these require evening's entertainment at his special equipment or apparatus friend's home over the radio, he of certain specification, and the becomes tired with the desire great publicity that is generally to own a set himself and he can given a new circuit brings with it hardly wait till the stores open acorrespondling demand forthese- Jon the mOITOW,
parts. What will particular
By keeping dempen bis enthusiasm more quickly than to be told that the dealer isnt of this and out of that. but that it can be ordered from the factory or jobber? In most every case the new radio fan will not leave the order but elsewhere where be
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wants it.
True enough, new cireuits and new forms of apparatus are cont- ing out almost every day and little by little some of the der pieces of apparatus are going into the discard, but this change is a good dealsbiwer than some people would have us believe. it takes many months to get new radiu apparatus into production and many more months to get the right kind of distribution on it, and the general public demand extends over a long period, more than long enough for the dealer to stick a good supply to fill the popular demand.
Another thing, the introduction of new article does not neces
sarily mean that the older types
Wo into the discard. The intro duction of the low-voltage dry.
ahead of the times instead of behind the times the dealer will be able to reap the profits from these new developments,
BROADCASTING IN IRELAND. It is raported that negotiations for the formation of a broadcas ing company in the Irish Free State are proceeding satisfac torily. There is authority for stating that at least six companies are interested in the scheme, and it is likely that a company will be formed with which the firms now in conference with the Post Office! will he associated. An official] statement as to the progress of the negotiations may be expected
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workmen have modelled the foundation, painted and repainted the surface, he alone attends to the final process. securely shielded from prying eyes. The secret remains in his safe keeping and eventually will be entrusted to his eldest son, the inheritor of
of Analysts. Strange as it may seem, the process of manufacture of the beautiful Footbow lacquer ware | his business.
which graces so many China The company is not only the homes still remains the secret of leading manufacturer, but the one man, the eldest brother of a pioneer in the local industry.
family controlling the industry: For over a hundred years the The existence of this family head of the house has been the secret has been known for years, craftsman perexcellence. but it was thought that under There are said to be a number exanimation by skilled foreign of imitators of the wares of Shen analysts it would gives its secret. Shao-an, and the present bearer But, according to the Chinese of the name, to show his claim to Government Bureau of Economic the secret 'process made famous Information Bulletin, such is not by his ancestors, has added Shoon the case,
Kee, his personal name, and character meaning "the right one," to the firm's name.
The artists of this Fukien port still jealously guard the secret of
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a hundred workshops, but they are all small establishments, in- cluding the company. Not one
of eldest sons who have received of them employs more than ten the secret of mixing the paints men. They have an average from their fathers. After his business of $3,000 monthly.
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