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CENSUS SHOWS RADIO INDUSTRY’S GROWTH
The Bureau of the Census announces that, ac¬ cording to a preliminary tabulation of the data collected in the Census of Manufactures taken in 1930, the total value (at f.o.b. factory prices) of radio equipment, phonographs, and parts and accessories shipped or delivered in 1929 by manufacturers in the United States amounted to $439,961,776, an increase of 62.6 per cent as compared with $270,497,270 reported for 1927, the last preceding census year. The total for 1929 is made up as fol¬ lows: 600,872 phonographs, valued at $20,559,516; 152,106 com¬
bination phonographs and radios, $22,193,702; 4,938,099 radio receiving sets (tube type, not including tubes), $250,602,162; other types of receiving sets, $472,803; 2,243 transmitting sets, $5,788,077; 3,301,314 loud speakers, $30,279,287; 5,204,505 radio transformers, $9,478,891; radio parts and accessories,* $57,027,008; phonograph cabinets, records, parts, and accessories, $43,560,330.
Detailed statistics for 1929 are given in the following table. These figures are preliminary and subject to revision.
Kind
Number
Value
Radio equipment, phonographs, and parts and accessories, aggregate value (1)
$439,961,776
Phonographs, including dictat¬ ing machines (2)
600,872
20,559,516
Combination phonographs and radios
152,106
22,193,702
Radio receiving sets (not in¬ cluding tubes) :
For six tubes or fewer
For seven tubes or more
Not reported by size
Other sets
637,921
4,000,494
299,684
(3)
31,264,855
195,926,495
23,410,812
472,803
Transmitting sets
Loud speakers
Transformers
2,243
3,301,314
5,204,505
5,788,077
30,279,287
9,478,891
Radio accessories and parts kits, amplifiers, power packs, microphones, controls, etc.
57; 027, 008
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