[Radio Wrangler]

If the bandspread variable capacitor is there, the set will still do bandspread, but with a blank scale for the segments being spread, you get the slower tuning but you don't get a scale to tell you where you are.

As suggested earlier, this will work for a user who wants to use different bands to Marconi's usual marine bands, and is prepared to mark up his own bandspread scale with say an indelible pen based on pips from a crystal marker.

It's far from useless.. there is life outside the marine bands!

David