Ekco wireless tunes in for a resounding auction result
Sometimes described as the wireless which saved Ekco, the radical Bakelite circular Model AD65 radio designed by Wells Coates in the 1933 sold in its tens of thousands. It restored the fortunes of the Essex factory after a disastrous fire in 1932.
Buyers at the time favoured the black and brown models above the green radios, which today are ext…