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Old 19th Feb 2020, 12:33 am   #1
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Hi all, Can some one help with the identification of this radio. The dial says Strad. I believe it may have been made here in Australia under licence by Briton radio and electric co Sydney with Chassis 6DWS-601? Chassis also used in Airzone and Peal radios of the Era. Any help and or circuit would be greatly appreciated. Any ideas on how to flatten out the buckled dial would also be great. Cheers, Geoff.
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Old 19th Feb 2020, 10:37 pm   #2
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Is it really fitted with an EK1 valve?

Does the EK1 have an 8 pin European side contact valvebase?

If it does, the chassis has an unusual combination of European and American valves.
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Old 19th Feb 2020, 10:57 pm   #3
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From the Radiomuseum, the EK1 octode: Has the Ct8 side contact base.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_ek1.html

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Old 19th Feb 2020, 11:26 pm   #4
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Is it really fitted with an EK1 valve?

Does the EK1 have an 8 pin European side contact valvebase?

If it does, the chassis has an unusual combination of European and American valves.
It sure does but as mentioned the 6DWS Chassis was use here in Australia by Briton Radio / elect so quite possible a mix of what was available at the time.
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Interesting - Strad radios are fairly often met with here in the UK, but were products of R M Electric of Gateshead in the North East, which according to RM.org (no connection!) was only founded in 1944.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hers...ompany_id=6414

The rather handsome console has every appearance of dating from the middle 1930s, when as far as I know no British company was using or had registered the Strad trade name.

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Old 20th Feb 2020, 8:15 am   #6
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Thanks for the info Paul, the plot thickens.... interesting.
Will check out the link.
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There was another very smart Australian Strad console set on here about ten years ago.

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=58098

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Which enquiry also petered out unresolved.


The Briton 6DWS you mentioned https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/briton_6dws.html does have the same valve lineup. No picture, unfortunately.



Thom and Smith Pty also used a similar lineup, though without the extra 6D6 RF stage https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/thomand_tasma_320.html
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Which enquiry also petered out unresolved.
Yes... I'm hazarding a guess that the Strad brand may have been used in Australia for a line of sets produced by an established factory exclusively for a department store chain. There doesn't seem anything to link it to British Strad radios, and eighty-odd years on it can be tricky in the UK to link our native brands to the department stores that sold them, never mind to find any service info unless a chassis is a more or less exact match for a model distributed through the usual trade channels.

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Any chance of a close up of the dial? I assume it says Strad and from a distance the font looks similar to the distinctive one used by Strad here ... I expcet it will be completely different when we see but just wondering.

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Old 21st Feb 2020, 7:42 am   #11
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Yes... I'm hazarding a guess that the Strad brand may have been used in Australia for a line of sets produced by an established factory exclusively for a department store chain. There doesn't seem anything to link it to British Strad radios, and eighty-odd years on it can be tricky in the UK to link our native brands to the department stores that sold them, never mind to find any service info unless a chassis is a more or less exact match for a model distributed through the usual trade channels.
I'm tipping your on the money Paul. Phillips here put their name on a lot of other branded VCR's in the 90's. On the Historical radio society of Aus they claim to list all radio's made here in Aus and the "Briton" band lists a 1935 console with the same chassis number as mine and a friend mentioned to me that they did sell certain radio's to Department store chains so going on everyone help it appears to be a 1935 6DWS "Briton"console with the Strad logo ( made here in Sydney Australia) http://www.hrsa.asn.au/hrsa-files/radio-models.pdf
Page 27 at bottom. The dial face is a little scratch because its warped and the needle has rubbed on it. Any ideas on how to flatten it out would be appreciated. Cheers all
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