That's very true David [except re the Lancaster 1155 perhaps?]. Especially re the 19 sets which I don't think that much of even now, although they are venerated in some quarters. Clumsy and tightly wired [like R1155's in a way] but I would have loved one of those back then. They had a proper dial after all [like an R107] and looked the business but probaly 2-4 weeks wages at least
. I only got one a decade ago. We are back to the auction "gamble". You never know who turns up or what they might value......in every sense of the word!
Dave
Bexhill
PS. I fully accept that the 19 Radios had an undoubted value in the actual war time situation [even with the UHF one valve regenerative B set not being up to much] and one where people died. Of course I'm looking at this from my experience twenty years after the War was won by those same individuals. Same thing if you were twenty years old in a Bomber!