John Marquette established Silvertone in Australia in 1958. John's company, Advance Radio Control, produced Silvertone single channel valve equipment and later multi channel reed equipment, again using valves. In 1963 Bob Young purchased the Silvertone radio manufacturing section and established Silvertone Electronics.

Thus Silvertone may be considered the pioneers of radio control in Australia. From Single channel valve super-regenerative receivers to 24 channel solid state super-heterodyne digital proportional receivers has been a giant step and Silvertone has gathered a wealth of experience in the process.

Amongst our list of Australian R/C firsts are included the first commercial production of R/C gear which included single channel and reed, valve and transistor transmitter and receivers.