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Old 16th Nov 2018, 10:24 pm   #1
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Default Baird Colour Television 700 Series

While replying to the thread Baird 8741 I remembered that I have a Radio Rentals colour television leaflet entitled:

Colour TV by Radio Rentals

This listed the models and includes a price list dated 2 Nov. 68.

All the sets are described as console, one without doors and three with doors. Model numbers are 19" 705/718; 25" 701/712; 25" 703/713 and 25" 704/714. The three 25" sets having different cabinets.


The "small" 19" I could just about carry on my own - in an emergency - unpleasant customer who did not ring for service until the afternoon, which meant a journey from Birmingham to a village south of Leamington Spa.


The annual rental of the 19" was £ 65 per annum or you could buy it for 250 gns.
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Old 16th Nov 2018, 10:41 pm   #2
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Default Re: Baird Colour Television 700 Series

The Baird 705 was a re-badged GEC 2028.

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Old 17th Nov 2018, 3:32 pm   #3
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Default Re: Baird Colour Television 700 Series

https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/baird/

Some of the models mentioned above are listed in the above link to a Baird Brochure.

The 704 was a console unit that could be mistaken for a sideboard when the doors were closed. I guess it wasn't popular with Radio Rental engineers who had to lug them up stairs.

https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/radio-rentals/

The September 1973 price list still has the 701 & 703 available, as part of the budget range.
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Old 17th Nov 2018, 5:14 pm   #4
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Default Re: Baird Colour Television 700 Series

Hi
That RR price list is not exactly correct! It trumpets 'fully transistorised sets' then one set illustrated below is the Baird 8750 which, although a very good TV, was a hybrid Korting in disguise.
The 701/3 must have seemed pretty dated by 1973, especially when faced with the new chopper circuitry in the Thorn 3000. Customers would have been bemused by the rotary tuners as well!
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