Re: Television in the Home
 

What about this 1939 Philips - for the first image?

Steve

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The Philips doesn't have the full width speaker grill. Perhaps Baird T26 ??

P.

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And the wife needs to have a care too. Any wittering-on from her about knitting patterns or spot-flyback-suppression, and she’ll be the next point-of-arrival for that brick. Incredible the things people will do for the sake of watching a TV programme...

Mike

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First picture is from the film "Train of events".

Re: Television in the Home
 

Back to the present day. This gentleman, who lives in the Home Counties, runs an upgraded Baird as the family set in the lounge. He intends to have an 'H' installed on the chimney when the signal becomes available again in the London area, as is hoped.

Steve

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Here's a picture already seen recently on this forum, taken from "Here Comes The Sun", a film starring Flanagan and Allen from 1946.

The set appears to be the larger screened EMI pre-war table set variant (eg. HMV 905, Marconi ???) and to have been mounted with the rear poking through a false wall, which could actually be quite a good idea from the point of view of ventilation.

Steve

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Marconi 707.

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Ah, thanks Peter. Could it be sets like this with radios generally survived the war in better shape?

Steve

Re: Television in the Home
 

This illustration is from my late father's copy of the third (1956) edition of Odhams "Radio Television and Electrical Repairs", but I would think it dates from the first (1948) edition.

Does the combined TV and Radio look like an actual model, or is it just a generalised artists' impression? I was always puzzled by this drawing as a child as I had never seen a combined radio and TV.

Re: Television in the Home
 

My vote goes to the artist's impression.

Peter

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Here's a closer look at Emeritus' set (1st pic). Could it be an actual set?

Talking of artist's impressions, here is a 1939 set I also posted in a previous thread (2nd pic). Though someone has suggested it might be a Burndept.

Pipe smoking seems to have been popular with televiewers, especially pre-war. Maybe my uncle Ed was another example... (3rd pic).

Steve

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With regard to the first attachment in the previous post, didn't McMichael make a similar post-war TV set?

DFWB.

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Similar, but not the same.

http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/m.../mcmichael.htm

Steve

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Hi Steve,
Surely the 2nd set in your post no. 111 is supposed to be generic, because given the subject matter, wouldn't it imply that the guide was biased if the set was identifiable?

Cheers
Andy

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You're most likely right Andy, though I suppose 'sponsored' product placement is a possibility.

Steve

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Another 'is it a real model?' picture from Odham's 1949 "See How It Works" book along with a pipe-smoking looker-in.

Re: Television in the Home
 

An interesting set indeed, that I can't trace. The dominance of "full-sized" valves and "Visconol" style HV capacitors point to mains EHT. It all looks rather 1939.

Steve

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I think it's another artist's impression but perhaps they found it easier to draw after seeing the Cossor 902 with the transparent case.

Peter.

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Spot on, Peter!

Steve


Edit, after you posted the picture: though there are substantial differences in the appearance of the innards. The artist clearly had good technical knowledge.

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That was a good spot Peter!

Going back to the set in post #109
David suggested a McMichael:-

However it is also similar to two sets from 1949. See the Cossor 914:-
https://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/cossor/cossor.htm

Or the Ferguson 945TRG:-
https://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/...n/ferguson.htm

Cheers
Andy