Bill Tutte – Bletchley park
Thos e of you who read my articles regularly, will appreciate that I have a passion for vintage electronics, engineers who have stamped their mark on our lives and who have gone somewhat unsung. I ...
Browsing Archive June, 2018
Leak Point One, TL12…. Et al
Well, you can't say a bad thing about any one from the Leak family (no, I am not talking about the Leak 30s and 70 please). What to watch out for; Have a look at the mains transformer for signs ...
TV Sets
With the growth of budget priced colour TVs during the 70s and 80s, black and white sets slowly started to become a thing of the past. However, with a generation or two on and 40+ year olds hankering ...
Audio Research
I have had a couple of D115s recently.These are lovely amplifiers, but not designed to be serviced. Nine 6550s / KT88s and loads of drivers, phase splitters, long tailed pairs, ICs, transistors ...
Pye HF25s.
These amplifiers are quite rare today. They did not seem to be as popular as the Leaks and Quads, but were equally as good and very well made. This was mainly due to PYE's set building for the ...
Blaupunkt
This is the best of the "Cocktail Cabinet" radiograms ever produced. Dating around 1956-1960, these sets were very popular with the West Indian community and other people with taste. These radiograms ...
McMurdo 15-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6sB4SktZwThis is the Rolls Royce of the 1930s radiogram era. McMurdo was an American company and sets were made in the UK under licence by the British McMurdo Radio ...
Ferguson
Ferguson was an American company, becming adopted in the UK and was responsible for providing the mass consumer market with budget radios, TVs, and radiograms. Ultimately being taken over by Thorn, ...
Grundig
Well, after losing the war, I suppose the Germans had to gain credibility somehow. One way was to make good quality sets such as this. The design was fairly standard, along the lines of Philips, ...
Philips
Always a soft spot is the Philips. This set, with a lovely deco style cabinet, so popular with the more discerning second hand car dealers, had a good quality radio section and powerful output stage. ...
Philips 60s
This was a popular style of set in the 1960s. Piano key operation was in vogue for wave changes and on-off functions. These sets had two speakers mounted each end of the case and gave a "wide" ...
Roberts Radios
Well, all the early Roberts radios were good quality, performed and sounded well. The little green R66 was a nice little set. The usual 7 pin "D" 1.5 volt and 90 volt range of vales were used. The ...
