Those things used to be called "music trunks" in German. They went out of favor in the early 1960s here though. The fanciest ones featured an FM/AM radio, a 4-speed turntable and a multispeed reel-to-reel tape recorder.
My mom made her first recordings in 1967 from her parent's music trunk (only radio and turntable) to reel tape using a microphone because the trunk didn't have any kind of connectors, except MAYBE a speaker plug.
European DC radios were always live chassis, as well as the universal DC/AC types. No polarized plugs in Austria and Germany as well as most other regions back then.
I suppose my 1950s TV set is NOT live chassis, otherwise I guess I would already have gotten shocked from the missing knobs.
