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Motorola HT 800 Radio & Charger

Accession Number

1449.2018.1

Object Name

Motorola HT 800 Radio & Charger

Created

25/07/2018

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

25/07/2018

Brief Description

Motorola Radio, charger and spare battery.

Materials

plastic

Dimensions

Charger - 19(L) x 8(H) x11(W) cms Radio - 18(L) x7(W) x3(D) cms

Number Of Objects

3

Inscription Description

On charger "MOTOROLA CHARGING" ON radio - MOTOROLA HT800"

Colour

black

Maker

Motorola

Object Production Place

UK

Provenance

Founder of the Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, was a member of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team for around thirty years (1978-2006) and for many of these years he, and other team members, carried one of these radios around with them. The radios worked well when they were dry but didn’t like the wet very much, so a plastic cover - nicknamed ‘ the condom’ -became the norm for a while. Newer radios eventually took over, though unfortunately, not much more waterproof, rendering the HT 800 to the history books, or in this case our collection.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Mick Tighe

Acquisition Date

25/07/2018

Condition Check Date

25/07/2018

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

25/07/2018

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