Serial Number: RAF0598
Status: Display
Description:
Koyo Electronics and its subsidiary Koyo Electronics Industry,often collectively referred to as KOYO, are the Japanese Electronics companies based in Kodaira, Tokyo that manufactured radios since 1955 until 1973 and now, its subsidiary manufactures industrial electronics devices and factory automation control systems.
Their first product was a vacuum tube radio released in 1955, and their first transistor radio was the KR-6TS-1 released in the spring of 1957 at the price of 14,000 yen. Through the 1960s, KOYO had manufactured and sold millions of portable radios particularly, their best selling model KTR-624 had been shipped over one million units in ten years since its release in 1961. Their several models had bee sold under other brands, and also supplied to other manufacturers including Philco, Grundig, etc. However, in August 1973, they ceased manufacture of audio products including radio receivers and record players.
