|
Vintage Television and Video Vintage television and video equipment, programmes, VCRs etc. |
|
Thread Tools |
1st Nov 2014, 3:42 pm | #1 |
Heptode
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Camberley, Surrey, UK.
Posts: 800
|
Help with TV model make-number please
Can some one identify the TV for me please, not my field of expertise!
It appears in a photo dated to 1951 and I think the aspect ratio of the picture (height) has become less giving the wide screen look, surely there were no widescreen tvs then!! |
1st Nov 2014, 7:57 pm | #2 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING.
Posts: 9,145
|
Re: Help with TV model make-number please
I think it's an English Electric 1550 series. The picture makes it look wide screen but I don't think so in 1951! John.
|
1st Nov 2014, 8:17 pm | #3 |
Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Westbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Posts: 2,451
|
Re: Help with TV model make-number please
The picture is wonky. This is what they should look like.
|
1st Nov 2014, 9:27 pm | #5 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING.
Posts: 9,145
|
Re: Help with TV model make-number please
These are really interesting receivers. Full of 185BT valves and odd circuits. Love to play with one again. J.
|
1st Nov 2014, 9:57 pm | #6 |
Heptode
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Camberley, Surrey, UK.
Posts: 800
|
Re: Help with TV model make-number please
Thanks John, much obliged,
Brian |
1st Nov 2014, 11:00 pm | #7 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK.
Posts: 7,444
|
Re: Help with TV model make-number please
There's an English Electric 1550 hiding somewhere in the workshop. The EE 1550 employed a Cossor 15" CRT, a similar tube was installed in the pre-war Cossor model 1210 and the post-war version, the model 900.
A later version of the English 1550 was the model 1650. Although similar electrically to the previous model, this set employed an English Electric metal cone CRT type T900. Lots of interesting features in the circuit design, the most significant being the inclusion FM radio facilities. In 1950! Evidently, the design of the EE 1550 is attributed to Marconi's, Marconi WT company, not EMI. DFWB. |