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9 November 2025

  • curprev 17:5317:53, 9 November 2025 IonaNewberry talk contribs 2,280 bytes +2,280 Created page with "<br>Britain’s Pre-War Glow Problem It sounds bizarre today: in June 1939, just months before Britain plunged into war, Parliament was wrestling with the problem of neon interfering with radios. Mr. Gallacher, an MP with a sharp tongue, stood up and asked the Postmaster-General a peculiar but pressing question. How many complaints had rolled in about wireless sets being ruined by neon signage? The answer was astonishing for the time: roughly one thousand cases logged in..."