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, Ferguson specialised is making sets with gold and silver trim which appealed to those living on the East side of large towns. This set …
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, Mullard etc. However, good I.F. transformers seemed to enable these sets to be very selective and sensitive. Similar to Blaupunkt …
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. This fed a permenant magnet large speaker which had a bakelite HF cone section for the high notes. MonoKnob was …
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” feeling to the sound. All good sets had a magic eye. This made tuning the set into a …
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 set had a mains supply built in. Generally all is okay with these sets and the components …
Slightly unusual design. Radio section is straight forward, but the cabinet and dial definitely hark back to shipping days. The dial resembles a ships’ engine telegraph. Nice touch being that the scale is illuminated in different colours depending on waveband selected. When gram is selected, the lamp in the cabinet lid comes on so you …
These wireless sets were very popular in the mid to late 1930’s. There were many variations on the chassis as used in the set shown. They were branded as Marconiphone, HMV. The chassis was used in table models and radiograms alike. AC and DC only versions were made, depending on the area in which they …
Everyone has to own one of these sets before the die. Recent popularity due to Ebay, seems to have emptied lofts, garages of these little sets. As long as the case is in good order (Bakelite) and the dial is okay, these little treasures can generally be brought back to life and work very well. …
