Re: Mystery radio
I've only met one RGD console radio, a 1938 model and most likely the 1135, too far away for me to buy it. The company wasn't a high volume manufacturer to start with, and, while selling to an affluent market perhaps increased the survival chances of their equipment, the craze for output triodes in recent years will have claimed moire than a few victims - PP3/250s or PP5/400s in push-pull were usual in the larger models. All sorts of things happened back in the day. I do have a chsssis from the 1938 model 1175: it's in a one-off cabinet a joiner built for it, probably in the mid '50s, in the style of the period and tremendously strong, but with a then new BSR UA8 as its record deck. It turned up in some sort of jumble sale in Lincoln in the early '80s, where its owner, the cabinet-maker's daughter if memory serves, was protesting that if nobody would pay £10 she would take it home and put an axe to it. I succumbed willingly enough to the emotional blackmail...
Paul
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