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slidertogrid · 30th Jun 2020, 11:31 pm

That's the set! The 1400 certainly had a lot of cabinet styles, badge engineering must have been at it's height in the 1960s!

The 1400 also seems to have had a fair production run as well. They were plagued with intercarrier buzz which got really bad on the odd occasion that captions were used. Thorn issued a fair few mods to cure this but there was no complete cure, most sets suffered to a degree. Considering how long the chassis was in production you would have thought they would have cured it at some point...
Well I suppose they did on the end, they released the 1500!

30th Jun 2020, 11:31 pm	#5
slidertogrid Octode Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK. Posts: 1,898	Re: Yet another TV to identify... That's the set! The 1400 certainly had a lot of cabinet styles, badge engineering must have been at it's height in the 1960s! The 1400 also seems to have had a fair production run as well. They were plagued with intercarrier buzz which got really bad on the odd occasion that captions were used. Thorn issued a fair few mods to cure this but there was no complete cure, most sets suffered to a degree. Considering how long the chassis was in production you would have thought they would have cured it at some point... Well I suppose they did on the end, they released the 1500!