This is interesting. Perhaps you'll find it interesting that all the transceivers in Soviet (and allied) tanks during early cold War used this technology. I also saw it in big lorry mounted KF radios from the 50s~70s. There were a bunch of settings programmed in advance and then during use the operator would switch them then multiple dials would turn on their own internally setting each preset.
One of more popular devices still hunted and used by radio amateurs in countries in the region is the vacuum tube power amplifier for the big KF military radio R-140m. Unfortunately there is little info in English about it. It looked like this http://www.r140.de/
In modern times there is a control box made by some amateur that can be used to program auto tune presets in the R-140m linear amplifier. It actually tunes the antenna's network too.
Those tank transceivers were fm so they are not much of use today. That's one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-123
One of more popular devices still hunted and used by radio amateurs in countries in the region is the vacuum tube power amplifier for the big KF military radio R-140m. Unfortunately there is little info in English about it. It looked like this http://www.r140.de/
In modern times there is a control box made by some amateur that can be used to program auto tune presets in the R-140m linear amplifier. It actually tunes the antenna's network too.