im doing a quiz for children in need at work and am stuck on one question and wondered if anyone could help.  The question is "In the run up to the 1953 Coronation, how many television sets were sold? "

Can anyone help ?  I have answered all of the others and just need this last one :)

Claire :)

Don't guarantee accuracy ...........

"As the forties became the fifties, the transmission network spread further afield and set ownership slowly grew, but it took another Coronation - that of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 - to spur the public into a real interest in the medium. An estimated one million sets (effectively doubling the existing number) were bought in the run-up to the event, which was watched by an estimated 20 million people in this country, with live links by cable to France, Holland and West Germany (a major technical feat given that three different transmission standards were involved)."

sounds good to me - thank you so much, and what a rapid response :D :D

I will have to share my prize with you, not that I know what it is it was the challenge of the quiz which grabbed me :) :rolleyes: