Not my favorite things to work on!
Well, not my favorite things to work on, but the word has got around. A selection of organs that have come in recently. Some very […]
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A few radios recently restored
The local vintage car club is good fun. A few radios recently restored. The most interesting one was a 6 Volt American Bosch round unit.
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85 years of TV – Now in Colour! An update
Celebrating 85 years of TV – Now in Colour! Well, it is 85 years since the first official TV broadcasts were made from Alexandra Palace.
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Hedley Jones….. Know about him?
A little off piste this one. As you know, I like writing about engineers and personalities that, in my opinion never received the recognition that
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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
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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
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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
