Seventy-five years ago, this pleased listener was tuning in a static-free program on her General Electric model JFM165.  The AM-FM set sported a 12 inch speaker for faithful reproduction of those high-fidelity FM programs.  This picture appeared in the December 1940 issue of Radio Today.

The set featured sixteen tubes and in addition to the standard broadcast band, covered the prewar 42-50 MHz FM band, rendering its FM capability obsolete after the war.  The set also covered, however, two shortwave bands, so it would pull in lots of interesting signals both during and after the war.

A nice example of the set can be found at this link.  As you can see, the FM tuner seems to be added in as a bit of an afterthought.  The FM dial is located in the top compartment the young lady is fiddling with.  The main tuning dial, covering standard broadcast and short wave, is at the front of the set.  The same tuner, the JFM90, was also available as a separate unit, and you can view a nice example at this link.

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