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Old 6th Aug 2012, 12:28 pm   #1
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Default Dux/Philips Swedish TV-Radiogram!

Well here's a real oddball for you: A swedish Dux combination tv/radiogram from the early 60s.

A little research shows that Dux started as a company on their own right, but were swallowed up by Philips and ended up being pretty much badge engineered versions of the parent company's product. They were made in the Philips factory in Sweden and I guess were pretty much the equalivalent of Stella or Cossor deritives of Philips over here.

There is a very close relative of the Dux model here:
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_complett.html

Mine came from a house clearance outlet, who tell me it turned up at a general household auction in Boston, Lincolnshire. Frustratingly it's history is therefore unknown!

The big question is of course why would anyone go to the not inconsiderable bother of importing a hefty thing like this, when only the radio and record player sections would have been usable in the UK? Perhaps someone came to settle over here and brought it with the rest of their furniture, not realising the difference in television standards...

It's been fitted (not very professionally) with a 3-core British mains lead in the old wiring colours, so it's probably been resident here for some considerable time. The TV and radio chassis are rated at 220v, so it may also have been somewhat overrun!

The TV standard is 625 lines VHF with a 13 channel tuner. The CRT is a 21" Philips AW53-80 and it appears an even bigger 24" screen version was available. The chassis has an interesting valve line-up (see pic) and features no less than 5 fuses!

The television has already seen 'first light' producing a very narrow and very short raster with a squashed bottom and expanded top. There are lively-looking flashes when the tuner is clunked round. No doubt plenty of black caps to change, but at least the LOPT is OK and the tube looks good, presumably not having had much to do for the last however many years.

The television and radio are entirely separate units, each independently powered, so it's not a really integrated unit (much like the British Pye Slimline Trio). There are seven thumbwheels in a recess below the CRT, for voume, tone, brightness, height. Two pushbuttons on the side of the case select TV/Radio sound, by simply switching either output to the dual cone speaker (you can in theory watch the TV picture and listen to the radio). Three more buttons are the main tv power on/off, with the other two seeming to translate as 'Pilot' and 'Clear'...

Work on this beast will have to wait for a while, but it looks promising. Could anyone suggest a source of a suitable VHF modulator?


Steve J
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