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These are absolutely first class Ekco receivers from 1954, the first turret tuned Band 3 model from Ekco and probably the best of the early ITA receivers.
Very straightforward with no odd faults, an engineers delight.
Common faults as mentioned is the LOPT case [If disintegrating, easily fabricated from Paxolin]. It was the first model to employ the moulded case [ a bit like a railway bridge] unlike the earlier Ekco models that had the arched Perspex case. This early type never gave any problems.
It will be capacitors all the way. Decoupling, mains filter, boost, the ones that look like resistors, including the oil filled ones in the frame and the nasty Visconol if it has not been linked out already...
The tuner was used by Ekco with slight modifications from 1954 to 1965. One of the best multi channel tuners ever.
The Truleigh Hill relay at Brighton David was on channel 3. Rowridge was on the books and they didn't want the public to require another retune only 18 months later.
It was Folkstone that was channel 2. Very early translators commissioned in time for the Coronation.
[Oh by the way David, When I last visited the St Andrews Road area of PORTSLADE it was surrounded by the Sludge works on one side, the Council tip on the beach just about viewable from an upstairs bedroom if it were not for the huge fish guano works blocking the view at the bottom of the garden. Is it definitely Hove or the far more interesting industrial area of Portslade I have described?] Regards, John.