Eighty years ago this month, the September 1941 issue of Service magazine carried this ad reminding dealers that the Radiola model 526 would sell itself. The set covered standard broadcast and shortwave, and was billed as having a “Station Spreader” dial on the 25 and 31 meter bands. This appears to mean that the tuning range was 9.5 to 12 MHz, meaning that those two bands would naturally take up most of the dial, resulting in easy tuning on those crowded bands.

The same set was available in a wooden cabinet as model 527.  It could also be purchased without shortwave, in plastic as model 516, or wood as model 517.