Seth´s Articles

McMurdo 15-17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

FM Radio transmitters

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

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

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!

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. ...

Zeta Services
Logo
Zeta Services
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.