In dark wood cabinet with side panels and with a
red/purple ""Arbolite" front and top, brown Bakelite
knobs and a brass trim around the wavelength scale. A
black wooden bottom plate is affixed to the bottom of
the cabinet. It has a small vertical wooden bar in
front of the speaker.
The knobs from left to right:
wavelength switch, reaction control, with the tuning
knob above it, and on/off/volume control. At the back of
the chassis is a knob for the separating filter. The
radio has connections for a long or a short antenna,
earth and a gramophone player.
The receiver comes from Belgium, and
was probably also made there. It has a "Licence SBR/SEM" plate
and is equipped with American valves. This model was
probably introduced in 1932. A pencilled text on one of
the capacitor blocks shows the date: 15/4/32.
A similar radio,
a predesessor of the Melodie, with the name Duo 312, was
introduced in the Netherlands at the Spring Trade Fair,
held from March 10 until March 19, 1931. This receiver
had a chassis that could also be bought separately as
Type 311 (see advertisement below).
The Melodie was
also released in the Netherlands. A
newspaper advertisement shows a radio with the same
shape, but without the side panels, the front is flat
and theloudspeakerornamenthas the formoftwo connected
half circles. Arbolite was not used (see
advertisements of a Dutch and a Belgian model below).
The original
price of the Duo 312, introduced in The Netherlands, was
f 175,-; the price of the Melodie was f 132,50. In
Belgium, the Melodie was sold for Fr 1950,-. The license
fee was Fr 60. The DC version, the Weco Melodie 5008,
cost Fr 2100,- and the license fee was Fr 80.
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