Mystery radio

[peter_scott]

If you are not too bothered about it floor standing there is a motor driven Ekco that is open to offers.

Peter

[Heatercathodeshort]

Originally Posted by greenstar

Any idea who made the pushbutton tuner for the Defiant? Tony

Almost certainly Plessey who probably manufactured the entire radio. John.

[sparkymike]

Plessey made all the selector banks for telephone exchanges, so I would think that the push button radio switches were right up their street and to them , childs play. (I worked for Plessey in the 70's working on TXE 2 telephone exchanges.Good days !!)

[rontech]

Originally Posted by rontech

I have a lavishly illustrated RGD catalogue for model year 1939. it shows as an option an "Armchair control box" This would sit on the arm of your chair and connected to the radioconsole and radiogram models via a cable. It had a row of push buttons for station select.

For the top end sets only of course, which were very expensive. Up to 110 guineas in 1939!

The Bank of England inflation calculator gave the following 2019 equivalent for £115 in 1939.

£7,573.38

Inflation averaged 5.4% a year.