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14th Jun 2018, 10:26 am | #1 |
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GEC radiogram or not? (Identified as a Marconi RG22A).
Can anyone tell if this is a GEC radiogram or something totally different. I think the slanted blur in the bottom corner is the brand. This is the only picture I have unfortunately.
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14th Jun 2018, 10:55 am | #2 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
For a moment I was going to say "what radiogram, where", but then saw what looked like a tablegram when I enlarged and brightened the photo.
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14th Jun 2018, 11:25 am | #3 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
Looks like it is a Tabletop Gram to me-otherwise it's a Radio with an enormous amount of "headroom" well spotted at all in that crowded that scene. If the mark is the brand, the only one I can think of with that shape is possibly Marconi [Maybe ].
Dave PS. I idly googled Marconi Table Top Radiogram and in the "images for" strip, there it is...large photo 1930! Can someone put it up ? PPS. I still couldn't make out the brand but there are threads from 2013 and 14 identifying it as a 289 and that the label says GMarconi. Last edited by dave walsh; 14th Jun 2018 at 11:44 am. |
14th Jun 2018, 11:31 am | #4 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
That blur and the general appearance hints at Marconi to me.....
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14th Jun 2018, 11:32 am | #5 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
Agreed, looks like this one in particular (Marconi RG22A)
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=111160 |
14th Jun 2018, 11:43 am | #6 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
Yes that's the 2014 one I just mentioned in my post. The 2013 thread is more specific re ID and previous precedents/models. Apparently there is a PX4 involved!
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14th Jun 2018, 11:47 am | #7 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
But what a time capsule of a "front room". So evocative in its detail. Late 1940s?
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14th Jun 2018, 1:40 pm | #8 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
From the front of the RG22A manual.
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14th Jun 2018, 2:50 pm | #9 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
My uncle's front room looked like that until his passing in 2008 Perhaps this photo is similarly recent, and the telly / VHS combo (which he rented to the end) is just out of shot. He was a man of simple pleasures; his energy consumption (same fireplace, with a gas fire perched in it) was at the kind of level I'd like to get back to for the sake of my kids' futures.
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14th Jun 2018, 6:58 pm | #10 |
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Re: GEC radiogram or not?
That's a rather sad [utility?] Xmas Tree on the sideboard at the back of the room surrounded by Xmas Cards. I might make it my Xmas Card this year-
"A 1940's Christmas". The dog resembles the rather knowing one from the old Daily Mirror cartoon! Dave |