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Última revisión de 11:01 23 sep 2025

1939’s Strange Neon vs Wireless Battle

On paper it reads like satire: in the shadow of looming global conflict, the House of Commons was debating glowing shopfronts.

Labour firebrand Gallacher, rose to challenge the government. Were neon installations scrambling the airwaves?

The figure was no joke: the Department had received nearly one thousand reports from frustrated licence-payers.

Imagine it: listeners straining to catch news bulletins, drowned out by the hum of glowing adverts on the high street.

Major Tryon confessed the problem was real. The snag was this: the government had no legal power to force neon owners to fix it.

He spoke of a possible new Wireless Telegraphy Bill, but stressed that the problem was "complex".

In plain English: no fix any time soon.

Gallacher shot back. People were paying licence fees, he argued, and they deserved a clear signal.

Mr. Poole piled in too. If neon signs in London was a culprit, weren’t cables buzzing across the land just as guilty?

The Postmaster-General ducked the blow, admitting it made the matter "difficult" but offering no real solution.

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Seen through modern eyes, it’s heritage comedy with a lesson. Back then, neon was the tech menace keeping people up at night.

Eighty years on, the irony bites: neon is the endangered craft fighting for survival, custom neon signs London while plastic LED fakes flood the market.

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Why does it matter?

Neon has never been neutral. It’s always forced society to decide what kind of light it wants.

Now it’s dismissed as retro fluff.

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Our take at Smithers. We see the glow that wouldn’t be ignored.

That old debate shows neon has always mattered. And that’s why we keep bending glass and filling it with gas today.

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Ignore the buzzwords of "LED neon". Authentic glow has history on its side.

If neon got MPs shouting in 1939, it deserves a place in your space today.

Choose craft.

You need it.

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