Re: Early Colour TV's. Were they produced in the UK?
As said above, the continental manufacturers only sat up and took interest when the full colour service started in 1969, as making a dual standard set would not be viable. Up till then we had the home-grown products, i.e. the Thorn 2000, the Philips G6, the GEC 2028 series, the Bush CTV25/167, the Pye Colour Television Chassis (as it was proudly named) and the Decca CTV19/25. ITT were a little late to the party with the splendidly eccentric CVC1. Some of these dual standard designs were refined to make a single-standard version (Pye, Philips, GEC, ITT) wheres others decided to go back to the drawing board (Thorn, Bush, Decca), though the Philips G8 and ITT CVC5 weren't too far off being launched. Of these, only GEC (successfully) and Pye (less so) continued to refine and develop their original chassis to the mid-Seventies.
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