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Originally Posted by Maarten
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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
It's probably a Philips Ireland model, though the unusual model number doesn't correspond to this (there would normally be an 'IF' in there somewhere, for Irish Freestate).
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Must have missed that, or do you mean the part number of the backplate? Strangely, starting with 2H, that seems to the best of my knowledge a Dutch temporary part number. Such numbers were used in prototypes and in case production was rushed.
One coil has a normal Dutch number (A3), the other coil and transformer have British numbers (MK).
The date codes 20, 23 and 26 respectively, don't really make sense unless the first digit indicates the year (on the continent it's the last digit). Possibly 1952 in that case. |
I meant the only number visible on the cardboard back panel.
The Irish operation was quite small by Philips standards, and though they did build a complete range of locally designed models, the components were all sourced from different Philips divisions.
I guess this model could have been an Irish pre production prototype in preparation for the launch of VHF/FM. RTE only operated a single radio station until well into the 60s, but I can't find info about the dates.