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28th May 2018, 11:18 am | #1 |
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My parents' old TV
Until 1984 my parents rented a TV from Granada.
I've been trying to identify it from memory & old brochures posted online. I remember it was colour with a 20-24 inch screen & medium brown wooden case. All the controls were on a 1/2" strip at the right side of the screen. It had 6-8 small round channel buttons which could be turned to tune the channels in. The volume, colour, brightness, & contrast controls were sliders & the power button was small & square. The Ferguson 3852 looks similar but this was definitely a colour set. I've got the feeling it's a Ferguson / Thorn set but I've not found a close enough match on https://www.radios-tv.co.uk yet. If anyone can help please feel free to share some knowledge. |
28th May 2018, 11:36 am | #2 |
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Re: My parents Old TV
often Granada used the RBM a823 chassis, if it was a thorn set a 3000 would have a red cut out button top left side looking from back or 8000 series in middle under tube, the 3k had a fibreboard back as did many but not all of the rbm sets
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28th May 2018, 2:36 pm | #3 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Granada also rented Finlandia sets.... could it be one of these....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ZvAQNjVSc Cheers, Steve P,
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28th May 2018, 5:03 pm | #4 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Thanks for that Finlandia set link Steve. It was one of those that I didn't have the right license for in the seventies [recently re-opened TV Detector License Van thread-post 91*]. They seemed to be really exotic, Scandanavian and fuituristic at that time
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28th May 2018, 5:41 pm | #5 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Very reliable too when I worked there.
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28th May 2018, 6:52 pm | #6 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Yes very appreciated and nothing that I could have afforded to buy at the time There was a bundle with a VCR that had Long Play and you could drop in sound to edit, it was a great bonus but that feature didn't seem to last. Can't recall the model
I had a rather "Hail fellow well met" friend who looked and sounded much older than his real age. He told me he was working for Granada Television and knowing his theatrical background, mannerisms and french surname etc etc, I assumed he meant the Granada Studios in Manchester. I rang them up and the switchboard, due to my confident manner and his name, made the same deduction but he wasn't to be found. In fact, he had a job at Granada TV Rentals Dave |
28th May 2018, 8:11 pm | #7 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
i believe some sets were GEC
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28th May 2018, 8:24 pm | #8 |
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Think the vcr was an Hitachi that if if I am correct had to have a clock mod.VT33??
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28th May 2018, 8:29 pm | #9 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Sounds familiar but I can't be sure. I don't think many VCR's had "audio dub" but what do I know really I got some 8mm film [1964 party] trans to vhs and could add a Beatles soundtrack
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28th May 2018, 8:38 pm | #10 | |
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My Grandfather used to tell all the other inmates in his nursing home that I was a director at Granada, when in fact I was just a technician with GTVR. Nevertheless, I did, for several years, spend each weekday morning at the Quay Street site and got to to know the place rather well, this was arguably in its heyday, the time that Jewel in the Crown, Sherlock Holmes &etc. were in production. Occasionally I got involved with supplying sets as props. In order to put me in my place so to speak, the Technical Maintenance guys used to call me the Red Arrow man, those that know a bit about the history of the group will understand why.
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28th May 2018, 9:55 pm | #11 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Your set sounds a bit like a Thorn 9000, though the Ferguson version was 20" with square channel buttons and a plastic cabinet. The sliders, on-off switch and the controls in a vertical strip do sound like it, though.
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28th May 2018, 9:57 pm | #12 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
I had another look at https://www.radios-tv.co.uk & some of the GECs look close (especially the C2001H family) but no exact match in the brochures featured.
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28th May 2018, 10:49 pm | #13 | |
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The Ultra 6844 is another near miss, being a B&W set but on the right lines, the colour ones are close but not quite right. |
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29th May 2018, 8:40 pm | #15 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Thanks it's close but I'm fairly certain the channel buttons were ribbed black plastic tubes with a chrome top, which were used on other Fergusons (& a few other makes) in the 1970s.
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2nd Jun 2018, 12:11 am | #16 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
After doing a bit more digging the HMV 2725 (8800 chassis) looks very close, maybe it was another set with the same chassis, as many Thorn / Ferguson / HMV / Ultra used it.
Certainly the channel push buttons & setting sliders look right, maybe it was a face lifted model or something specially made for Granada. I know they first got a colour set in 1976-7 & possibly had the same one until 1984. |
2nd Jun 2018, 12:50 pm | #17 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Thorn certainly made TVs with different cabinet designs for Radio Rentals, badging them 'Baird', presumably to deter thieves. It's more than likely Granada had a similar agreement.
Many years ago, some TVs were stolen from the local Radio Rentals branch. One found a proud new owner from a pub transaction. 'What happens if it goes wrong?' asked the new owner. 'No problem', said Mr Burglar, 'just take it back to the Radio Rentals shop in town'. Said set duly went wrong, man duly returned it to the shop and the police duly arrived.... |
2nd Jun 2018, 1:10 pm | #18 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
The above set had a Granada logo-ed MK plug, which my Dad managed to pocket before handing it back, & it was fitted to the WH Smiths Data Recorder we had with our Acorn Electron.
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2nd Jun 2018, 4:31 pm | #19 |
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Re: My parents' old TV
Maybe one day you will complete the set
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In Granada's case many sets were also electrically exclusive to Granada too, having additions such as remote control where the manufacturer would never produce a similar set for retail purposes; I know of at least one Granada branded GEC design where this was the case. (Radio Rentals marketed one TX10 design as the 8233 and DER's version was the 5283, both sets were extremely cosmetically different). Regards Andrew |
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