[Ben_Dijkman]

As a Dutch Philips collector I can confirm that this one is a strange made radio.
Only the pointer drive-cord construction is a very stupid construction inndeed.

The speaker on your picture is not the original (philips) speaker, I'm affraid.

I don't understand the "happy negative" reactions to this beautifull radio.
If you know how to repair pre-war radios it should be no problem at all to repair a radio like this V5A(Or V6A/V7A).
Every singel part can be taken out very easy.
The drama of the wire isolation is common with philips pre-war radio's,.... that's true.
But with good new isolation socket, these radio's are very safe and it looks superb !
The problem with the knob, I have not heard before as far as I know.
So that's shure not a typical V5/6/7problemm .

The very dirty black-hands story, sounds to me a bit like 'kick the bucket' .

Everyone who know this radio and have restored one before, knows that this radio is worth every minute of work:
It works great, sounds great , it looks great!
Every singel part is to restore easy without problem's.
Thats far more than I can tell about other mark radio's who have often much more serious and typical problemms.

It's a strange build radio, that fits perfectly to this pre-war supermodern cabinet design.
It 100% shure is an "easy to restore radio" .Only the pointer drive-cord is a very stupid construction.

After restouring my V6A, I like this radio very much!

I hope you have got a more honnest point of vieuw about this special (for that time) radio.

Best regards ,
Ben Dijkman