After fifty years the radio was still going strong and I gifted it to my Dad so he could listen to his beloved Detroit Tigers when a game wasn't on cable. I wanted to reclaim it when he passed away but we could never find it in his room. I'd like to think someone is still using it.
The ladies putting in the components work pretty fast, about 5s per component for smaller ones, so about 720 cph. Top speed pick and place robots can now do 200k cph (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine) so ~300 or so faster. This increase pales considerably to any other aspect of such a process, eg cost of a transistor.