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24th Apr 2020, 10:20 pm | #1 |
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Mystery pre-war receiver
Briefly seen in a London club manager's office in the 1946 film "Appointment With Crime" (on Talking Pictures TV tonight) is what looks to me like a 1938/9 television set.
This has a shouldered console cabinet, a radio dial below the screen, and five knobs - three of them dark; two of them light. Maybe the light ones were the vision controls. The speaker aperture appears to be vertically crossed by (most likely) four central spars. The radio dial looks vaguely Murphy. Otherwise I thought G.E.C or Cossor. But it is probably none of these. What is it? A Baird maybe? Steve
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24th Apr 2020, 10:32 pm | #3 |
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This certainly looks the most likely, but the knobs and central speaker are different.
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25th Apr 2020, 6:57 am | #5 |
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If it was like the Baird T18, it would have been very sensitive to mains variations and, like all pre-war sets, very heavy. Probably a "mains aerial" too.
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25th Apr 2020, 9:16 am | #6 |
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The T19 is another that shows the BTL / Bush connection.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/bush_pb55pb_5.html Peter |
25th Apr 2020, 3:48 pm | #7 |
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This set had obviously survived the London Blitz. As a footnote, it's interesting to bear in mind that, had such a set been switched on at suitable times during early 1941, the owner would have seen the signal being broadcast from Alexandra Palace to counter the German Y-Gerät bomber navigation system.
On a television set, this would presumably have looked like travelling horizontal bars on the screen. The transmitted power was gradually increased, so the bars would have become 'whiter' over a few weeks. Any corrections welcome. Steve
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25th Apr 2020, 8:12 pm | #8 |
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The 4G signals at the top end of the UHF band seem to get stronger each time I look. History repeating itself, sort of.
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It's all smoke and mirrors. A visitor to the museum asked me how I was managing to produce old programmes on the vintage receivers.
I replied that television signals pass into the atmosphere and travel on forever. Eventually decades later they return to earth and if you knew how to pick them up and tune them in you could watch them again. I was believed, I was not expected to be.. and it was only the threat of getting a clipped ear that I confessed to the visitor but I had to show her our RF distribution system to prove the point.. She thought it hilarious. Things never change. John. |
26th Apr 2020, 12:07 am | #10 |
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I bought some old reel-reel tapes to play an a machine I was renovating, and was transported back to "Half a minute past six-thirteen" on Sunday 18th Oct 1964. The day Alec Douglas-Home announced his cabinet.
https://youtu.be/t0eZY8DTcck
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26th Apr 2020, 12:27 pm | #11 |
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Whilst we're on the subject of pre-war receivers in the films, here are some more - some shown before. All date from 1939/40. Enjoy.
Steve
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