World's First Transistor Radio! The Regency model TR-1 (1954, USA) 

As others have said, I would repair the white one, replacing what needs replacing. You should be able to find still some germanium transistors, though they probably won't be exact physical matches. Test all the components and get the white one working, so you can know what they were capable of doing. Keep all the old parts, in case you want to sell it in the future. Thanks for the excellent video.

Nice pair of radios. Some years ago, while living in Michigan, I met a collector who had a drawer full of these.

Nice pieces of history. In a relatively short period of time, look where we are now!

Cool! That's like the original iPhone of 1954.

this stuff is for preserving, not for repairing.

Very cool. Yeah, I’m with on repairing the newer one and leaving the older one as-is. [ I have an “Airline “. badged Raytheon made , BR-1100A. [ dated by the Tech who worked on it , as March, 1956]. 4 transistors, but performance is not bad at all. I just had to have it done. I figured , there’s enough of them on shelves for display, but that doesn’t give any sense of what it as like to use one, SO…… Great video. 📻😁

These were “revolutionary” “Space Age” When they came out back then. Seems like everything back then was “Space Age” Even some of the new food and drink items were “Space Age”

Beautiful radios. Too bad the battery leaked. I've learned expensive lessons from battery leakage. Thanks for the video.

Beautiful Radios

Fantastic! Iconic radios and I'm so glad you shared them with us. That's a hard call to make, but I would probably get them both working with new parts as needed, and of course save all the old parts and keep them with it.

my father imported these into the uk from Japan via his company AC agencies ltd. couple of years later he imported first ever tourch with a rechargeable battery.

Very nice radios, love your video

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Great presentation.

Thank you for the tour around these radio's. Seems odd that they chose to use such a high voltage battery and the ability to fit it the wrong way round! I'll bet many radio's got zapped back then.Probably not covered by the warranty so a very expensive repair required. Also, the audio output is reminiscent of class A tube designs. Not efficient for battery longevity.

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I would repair the white one. Just keep the original parts. Good luck to find the replacement gold grille for the red one which was damaged from the battery leaking.

Good! No more nuts -- back to radios!

The same age has I am born in 1954

Hi. Nice chennel! A question: which was the first pocket radio with a AM/FM switcher?

do you have the values for the caps in the Motorola 6X32E radio you recapped a few years ago, i have the same radio, but I cant find the capacitor values anywhere

I wouldn't repair either one of these radios. They are original only once. And for use as an AM radio, they are not very practical nor sensitive. Plus, the expensive battery precludes much use anyway. They are fun to look at and should gain value if left stock.

For being the first transistor radios,I’ve always felt these Regency’s to be rather plain and uninspired design wise. You’d think being the first and given it’s cost they would have designed a really futuristic jetsons looking case to give it that “world of tomorrow” look to match the revolutionary technology inside. Subsequent manufacturers really ran wild with their designs and it’s incredible the amount of imagination that was put into transitor radio designs.

Consumer reports losers There! The first transister radio made in U.S.A and just about the last! Get that with lefties! And I own a TR1!!!!!