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Actually, the reason is quite simple. These are British radios. The one at the bottom is a Radiomobile model 4200 series 4201 or something like that and the one above it I think is a 200X series. In the UK, where these radios were made, the scale on AM radios are always marked by the wavelength ie in metres. And what’s more, we like to have the low numbers on the left and the high numbers on the right.
If you live in the US, you will be used to seeing your scales marked in frequency (actually, in hundred of kHz or MHZ or MCS as it was then/10). But here’s the rub. You in the US also like to have your scales with the low number on the left.
Unfortunately, there is a reciprocal relationship between frequency and wavelength and so without completely redesigning the radio, a US market version of a British radio inevitably gets a scale with the high numbers on the left, so it looks odd to you.
From a manufacturing point of view, it’s much easier to screen print a different scale than it is reverse the tuner mechanism.
BTW, both those radios need a separate power unit/amplifier but it’s a different one for each radio.
That was probably much too much information!
