Re: UK Bandspread Receivers
Models with bandspread at the low end of MW were popular here throughout the 1960s. As regards SW bandspread sets, Pye were probably their most prominent exponent of all here, from the pre-war International through a multitude of eight- and nine-band '40s and '50s models to some that came very late in the valve era. As Synchrodyne suggests, later table models with bandspread tuning would chiefly have been for export markets, and I can only think of Pye and (same company) Ekco models that went down the 8 or more band route as late as the 1960s. For the domestic market here, Vega/Astrad portables invariably marketed as Russian sold well at highly competitive prices in the 1960s, and would largely have satisfied such demand as remained among the public for casual SW broadcast listening.
Paul
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