Priced in the pro-sumer market sector, the average household would have had to save the equivalent of three weeks salary to buy one.
[2] The firm began in a room above the family grocery shop on Maidenhead High Street, and the first product emerged in 1928 - the Dynatron U53 radiogram.
A factory was built in the large rear garden of the family house "Little Gables" in Ray Lea Road in Maidenhead, measuring just 50 by 25 feet initially, but extended several times.
They produced airborne guidance systems such as Gee for the RAF, and after the war, Ron Hacker was awarded the M.B.E., though this was accepted with some reluctance as he felt that his brother also deserved the recognition.
This tactic was needed in order to prevent Dynatron and Roberts products from competing against each other in the same market sector, but it also very much cheapened the image of the brand.