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14th Jul 2017, 10:00 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
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Perdio PR5
Hi,
I have one of these which does not have a Perdio badge on the front ( as per pic )I have seen others which do have a badge on the front ( right lower ) .What's interesting with mine is there are witness marks to show where a badge might have been ie no holes or signs of old glue . Did Perdio ever produce radios without a badge ? Cheers Pete |
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14th Jul 2017, 10:01 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
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Re: Perdio PR5
Sorry should read no witness marks
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14th Jul 2017, 10:42 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Fakenham, Norfolk, UK.
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Re: Perdio PR5
Could the difference be between the PR5 and PR5 De Luxe?
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/perdio_pr5pr.html http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/perdio_pr5_de_luxepr.html The De Luxe has six transistors rather than five, possibly it adds the badge too? Absence of the badge in the available images seems to go with absence of legends around the knobs. I'd forgotten that there were two versions of PR5, and before looking those up just now I was wondering whether this might be an instance - there were quite a few in the late '50s / early '60s - of a production set being offered through the surplus market once the new year's model was out, at a bargain price but unbadged. A couple of Dansette models certainly met this fate, I don't know whether any Perdios did. Paul |
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14th Jul 2017, 10:52 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
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Re: Perdio PR5
Hi Paul,
I think mine is a deluxe as it has 6 transistors and a headphone socket I notice the second link shows one like mine but with a badge ! |
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15th Jul 2017, 8:00 am
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Rest in Peace
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Basildon, Essex, UK.
Posts: 4,100
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Re: Perdio PR5
Below is an extract from the Trader service information.
Mike |
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15th Jul 2017, 9:43 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Fakenham, Norfolk, UK.
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Re: Perdio PR5
What an odd succession of events that relates!
First PR5, 5 transistors, aerial and earphone sockets, renamed the PR5 de Luxe when the second PR5 came out. Second PR5, still 5 transistors, no sockets. Third PR5, 6 transistors, and the sockets are back. I wonder whether the first sets may have had a different case finish too, real leather perhaps rather than leatherette - just dropping the sockets doesn't seem to promise much of a saving on the second variant. All this for a model made in such small numbers that many of us, myself included, will never have seen any of them in the flesh, while the later Super 7, Piccadilly etc. are much easier to meet. Paul |
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