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 ...
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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 ...
McMichael 365, 137, 135
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 ...
HMV 456, 425, Marconiphone 537,219,296
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 ...
FM Radio transmitters
Several projects have recently been undertaken for local radio stations, for example Valle radio and Cool FM These projects have included the building of 100 to 500 watt FM radio transmitters and ...
Beau Decca 1947 radiogram
An interesting radiogram, coming onto the market during 1947. I acquired this from a junk shop in South London for the huge sum of 30 quid. With the valve line up this set has, I would have paid 10 ...
BUSH DAC 90
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. It amazes me how many there still seems to be around. ...
A brief history of time, Car radios!
Now, the radio and car were invented around about the same time, Marconi did the radio and another chap did the car. One day, in the 1930s, someone had the bright idea of putting the two together. ...
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