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20th Apr 2019, 5:55 pm | #1 |
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Oddest Place You've Seen a UK Made Set
To compliment the thread on odd imports, I wanted to find out the most unusual places people have seen UK made sets.
Not just UK spec, but sets made for export that have turned up in odd places. I know a few 405 line sets have been exported by enthusiasts, & can be made to work with an Aurora & suitable power supply adjustments. Somewhere I read that both Australia & New Zealand considered using 405 lines when they were planning a TV service, & possibly some people imported sets from the UK anticipating this. As we've mentioned elsewhere it's simple to convert a system I set to system G, but without a VHF tuner system B wouldn't be available.
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20th Apr 2019, 6:28 pm | #2 |
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Re: Oddest Place You've Seen a UK Made Set
An HMV1806 405 line set dating from 1949 in an antique shop in Lucca, Italy, priced at 700 euros.
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20th Apr 2019, 6:47 pm | #3 |
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Finding a new UK-made set anywhere would be quite a surprise.
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20th Apr 2019, 8:50 pm | #4 |
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20th Apr 2019, 9:27 pm | #5 |
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I was slightly surprised to spot this Ferguson TX sold in Portugal on the Radio Museum.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ferguson_v36280.html When we've mentioned UK made sets being exported in Europe before, Thorn seemed to concentrate on the Scandinavian countries by the 1970s, adding to my surprise.
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20th Apr 2019, 9:51 pm | #6 |
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There were also Vestel badged Ferguson TX sets, so presumably quite popular in Turkey at the time. Google Image Search brings up lots of hits.
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Were they simply badged as Vestel or were they imported into Turkey as kits? Around the same time Cihan were making sets in Turkey using Samsung componants.
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One set appears to have 'PAL/ SECAM' printed across the control door, so perhaps they were also filtering their way into Middle-Eastern markets (via Turkey) in general. I guess you'd only need to localise the instruction manual/ paperwork, or have one covering several languages, keeping costs to a minimum.
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In the 80's in the TX-era they stopped rental of Thorn/Ferguson sets. They supplied sets of more or less the brand of your choise. One chain sold Rank sets, but after they went out of business that stopped. I only saw one PYE set. That was a 26" 110 degree delta thing. I couldn't get service info on it. Probably no distributor in Norway. |
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I know Australia had (unrelated) Radio Rentals shops, but often they were open ended rentals, with the option to buy after a few years.
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21st Apr 2019, 1:39 pm | #11 |
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Renting was not common here, only a few people did. Thorn did also rent white goods.
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