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 …
Month: 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
McMurdo 15-17
This is the Rolls Royce of the 1930s radiogram era. McMurdo was an American company and sets were made in the UK under licence by …
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. …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …