Four Decades of Radio, Television and Electronics June 26, 1986, Page 3. unique Canadian design anci manufacture. , Although special breakthroughs of circuitry, developed irx tjier labs-at .Chicago were employed, some deluxe models were copies, as designed in the U.S.> because of limited,, volume, nj -·:,, During this period, .Stewart-Warner, Canada ^employe4,alarg'e staff of engineers and sales people at-Belleville. ^Many , , new innovations and trends were developed at: the3elleville * Plant, such as portable sets which wer^^.engineered/and b^ilt here for a very discriminating ^nd (changing, buying public.. By 1932 there was a growing interest" in short-wave reqepiion,. This created a demand for "shprt-wave converter^s^^.^hat. could be wired into or attached to existing-sets to bring in the : short-wave bands. Stewart-Warner was : I n the forefrpht of this "demand" and quickly produced converters ii* large quantities. At the same time, the Company developed all-way^ console sets, and mantle types, which had the shprt-wave; band indications on one dial and achieved by "switching" f rorar one band to another. A v&ry famous byword at this time was the Stewart-Warner "Magic Dial" radios. developed in the mid-thirties a penchantr;for trying to turie '.in /far-away places such as Australia or Europe, and this help<ed to create the market for the all-Kband radios. Besides, the'clarity of short-wave was much better than the regular AM: bands because the latter were subject to interference, from many sources, such as automobiles, appliances and other radio sets. The new trends of the mid and late thirties never seemed to end. The phonograph had become redundant with the advance of radio. In 1930 and again in 1935-39 in 'new form, it played an important role, "joined" in a radio console model so that a customer could have a "combination" set and switch to records if and when desired. As the war clouds seemed to get closer, the phono, record became more and more popular, especially in places where armed-forces personnel gathered, as did the combination radio/phonographs. These devices, by channelling the record sound through the radio circuitry, permitted clearer sound with tone and volume control, not previously achieved in phonographs. In addition, the quality of records was improving. As early as 1932, Stewart-Warner Canada had experimented with a car radio. The antenna of this prototype was mounted under the running board (remember those!) to try to get the signal pickup as far away from the engine (with its spark plug interference) aa possible. From this early model, no great production developed, although a line of Stewart-Warner car radios was built /4