Baffling Vickers-Armstrongs "thing" identification please! - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

SteveCG · 20th Apr 2015, 1:35 pm

Looks like a mid 60's unit to me based upon the type of resistors and especially the transistors on view (for example the OC20* - PNP SI devices ?) and the black painted Mullard OC range.

G6Tanuki · 20th Apr 2015, 1:53 pm

The stack of blue NiCd cells is what we used to call a "DEAC" cell (after the German manufacturer)..

They date from the 1960s/early-1970s - I recall them being used in some small hand-portable VHF two-way radios.

20th Apr 2015, 1:35 pm	#21
SteveCG Nonode Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Herefordshire, UK. Posts: 2,495	Re: Baffling Vickers-Armstrongs "thing" identification please! Looks like a mid 60's unit to me based upon the type of resistors and especially the transistors on view (for example the OC20* - PNP SI devices ?) and the black painted Mullard OC range.

20th Apr 2015, 1:53 pm	#22
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Baffling Vickers-Armstrongs "thing" identification please! The stack of blue NiCd cells is what we used to call a "DEAC" cell (after the German manufacturer).. They date from the 1960s/early-1970s - I recall them being used in some small hand-portable VHF two-way radios.