Pionier U2 radio receiver

Description

The Pionier was the first Polish post-war vacuum tube radio. It was developed in 1948 at the Zakłady Radiowe Diora in Dzierżoniów by the team led by inż. Wilhelm Rotkiewicz, the designer of the Detefon radio. Immediately after the War, the factory in Dzierżoniów produced radios based on surplus components left by the Germans and the Aga radios under Swedish licence. The latter type of radio was the source of inductive components used in the first batch of the Pioniers, later to be replaced by Polish products. Radios from this family were designed to be easy and cheap in production and, above all, for the price to be attractive to the buyer. It was the low price and reliable design based on parts produced domestically that drove their popularity (a total of 1.5 million units were produced). The Pionier met the needs of a society impoverished after World War II. Manufacturer: Zakłady Radiowe Diora, 1950-1959 Inv. No.: MIM56/V-9 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA