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Old 4th Mar 2008, 4:22 am   #1
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Default "Vera Drake". Radio/TV identification.

I wonder if members can identify these three vintage items from a film entitled Vera Drake. The film was made in 2004, but was screened on SBS TV here in Australia a few nights agoon SBS (The multicultural TV channel here in Australia).
The tall timber radio is I think a Cossor 375U, but what about the TV and the smaller radio in the screen shots below. The film is set in Britain in 1950. The family with the Cossor was not well-to-do so I guess still having the Cossor is plausible.
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 5:39 am   #2
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The smaller radio on the mantel piece looks like a Pilot perhaps
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 9:41 am   #3
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More like an Emerson than anything to me, but they made hundreds upon hundreds of models and there were quite a few smaller companies producing sets of similar appearance. The Emerson here http://www.radiotiques.com/whatsnew.asp definitely isn't the model in the screenshot, but is the closest to it turned up by a quick trawl of images - the square dial with large black pointer does much resemble some Emersons I've seen.

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The Tv has a Sobel or slightly Phillips look about it ?
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 1:00 pm   #5
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The TV looks like a TV/radio console combination. Was that common in the early days?
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Old 5th Mar 2008, 2:14 pm   #6
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The tall timber radio is I think a Cossor 375U, but what about the TV and the smaller radio in the screen shots below. The film is set in Britain in 1950. The family with the Cossor was not well-to-do so I guess still having the Cossor is plausible.
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Most working class British households would still have been renting a 1930s radio in 1950. The typical history would be:

1920s: Crystal set
1930s-40s: Rented valve TRF or superhet, often using batteries
1950s: Purchased 5 valve wooden superhet
1960s: Purchased transistor portable

Remember that there was very little UK domestic radio production in the 1940s, at first because of the war effort and later because of the 'export or die' emphasis on foreign markets. It was quite unusual for even lower middle class people to own more than one radio before the 60s.

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Old 5th Mar 2008, 5:21 pm   #7
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The TV looks like a TV/radio console combination. Was that common in the early days?
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I agree it looks a little odd for the period, there were some combination types which also even included a record player in the late 50s (notably by Ekco), but the earlier combination types were like giant sideboards. This one appears to have 'chrome' faced knobs which surely didn't arrive until the 1960s. Perhaps a home made cabinet or foreign type?
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Tvs with built in radios were available from the 30s untill the present , though after the 60s probably mostly in portables . late 50s onwards they were often only VHF
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Just saw a trailer for a rerun of this tonight on one of the cable channels ( 9pm I think ??) If anyone can record it ? A.
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Just saw a trailer for a rerun of this tonight on one of the cable channels ( 9pm I think ??) If anyone can record it ? A.
It is being shown at intervals on Film4 at the moment. Unfortunately I saw your post too late to record tonight's showing.

A very moving film, though extremely bleak, even by Mike Leigh standards. The period feel is very impressive.
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I agree [the TV] looks a little odd for the period, there were some combination types which also even included a record player in the late 50s (notably by Ekco), but the earlier combination types were like giant sideboards. This one appears to have 'chrome' faced knobs which surely didn't arrive until the 1960s. Perhaps a home made cabinet or foreign type?
I don't recognize it either, but it looks plausible for 1950 to me. This is an upper middle class household and I imagine the set is supposed to be expensive and new (the telephone in the room is another sign of affluence - most people didn't have phones at all in 1950, and the ones that did mostly had them on a small table in the hallway by the front door).

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Old 28th Mar 2011, 8:56 pm   #11
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Default Vera Drake TV ident

I know there was a thread on this a couple of years ago, but the results were inconclusive.
( https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ght=Vera+Drake )

Anyone see this film last night? period detail looked very good to me (although I wasn't around in 1950!)

Anyone ID the TV?

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Old 28th Mar 2011, 10:41 pm   #12
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Its a GEC BT9144 of 1949
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