Some early, battery only consoles used similar, but larger tubes. I had a W estern Auto console built in 1937 that an uncle had bought new. It was 30 y ears old when he gave it to me. The battery wasn't available, and the one b ad tube was unavailable so I took a new surplus PC board for a modern table radio and wired it to the existing controls. I used it in my bedroom, for several years, until I went into the Army, 47 years ago. I didn't know if I would be coming back, so I sold my collection, and some of my test equipme nt and spare parts.
These radios were somewhat replaced by ones that ran off the 32VDC 'Winchar ger' systems on farms. They were generators mounted on a windmill tower to charge lead acid batteries to provide lights in farmhouses. They wired the homes with standard wiring used for AC, so when their area was supplied wit h AC, they simply changed out the 32V light bulbs with 120 volt bulbs and r emoved the Winchargers or just let them rust away. All of this was prior to WW II.