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. Built like a domestic radio, using 6 volt heater valves. This ...
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Happy Christmas!
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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. The East Wing of Ali Palais had been converted into studios, ...
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 they deserved. This chap did, sort of receive ...
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 on our lives and who have gone somewhat unsung. I ...
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 please). What to watch out for; Have a look at the mains transformer for signs ...
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 past. However, with a generation or two on and 40+ year olds hankering ...
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 drivers, phase splitters, long tailed pairs, ICs, transistors ...
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 very well made. This was mainly due to PYE's set building for the ...
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 other people with taste. These radiograms ...
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 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, ...
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