Roberts Radio Limited is a British consumer electronics company that produces radio receivers including digital and internet radios, as well as related audio equipment. Based in Chertsey, the company has been making radios since its foundation in 1932 and claims to be the oldest active radio manufacturer in the UK.[1] Roberts Radio have held a royal warrant since the 1950s.[2]
History
Roberts Radio was founded in 1932 by Harry Roberts (1910-1969) of Mile End and Leslie Bidmead of Kilburn. They financed the down payment on a small factory in London's Soho by selling Bidmead's motorbike. A few years later they moved across Oxford Street to no. 41 Rathbone Place.[3] During the Blitz in the Second World War, they moved to East Molesey