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Old 21st May 2018, 1:27 am   #1
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Default Saucepan Radio - Museum Piece - literally

I found this museum piece recently in The Livingstone Museum in the town of Livingstone, Zambia.
With a Berec "batry".
As I believe, the radio was produced in the 1940's, not the 1930's.

This model is shortwave only, but a dual band MW/SW type was also apparently made.

There are a couple of posts on this forum with some extra info, and on the RadioMuseum site, inter alia.

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Old 21st May 2018, 5:56 am   #2
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Default Re: Saucepan Radio - Museum Piece - literally

Yes a lovely piece

I have bid on several over the years but this is probably the rarest most expensive Ever Ready of them all

RR gives the original date as 1949 which is plausible but they were still being advertised well into the 1950's

For those note aware BEREC stands for British Ever Ready Export Company

There are a few on the Radiomuseum but this is as far as I know the earliest version

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_s...special_2.html
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Other companies made metal cased low cost sets for Export including Cossor https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/cossor_527x_527x.html

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Old 25th May 2018, 12:44 am   #3
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Default Re: Saucepan Radio - Museum Piece - literally

Yes, these were mentioned in Practical Wireless from time to time. I used to fancy trying to replicate one [in bright blue]. Just get the handle off the pan etc but it never happened!
One article mentioned that radios had to be termite proof, so a "woody" wasn't a good idea

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Default Re: Saucepan Radio - Museum Piece - literally

Yes it was designed to stop termites eating the case I believe for the African market.

Fancied one for years.
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I didn't know that the "Saucepan" had competitors, like the Cossor Mike points out. Neat construction! ! wonder if the Saucepan was intended to make us of an easily available case or maybe influenced by the round Ecko design in any way?

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According to this extract, it was a by-product of WWII. Nice to see it exhibited in it's notional birthplace!: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/...nalCode=chjf20
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In another post https://vintage-radio.net/forum/show...ighlight=Burma
I have been trying to find information on another Cossor produced for a community listening project in Burma. I don't know what it looks like but some of the maintenance instructions make it seem like it might also have a metal case it's model number is 493AX
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