Marconi Receiver

[M6SPW1974]

Hi Chaps, right i bought won this Marconi MW receiver at a local auction today at a very modest price,it looks to be in very nice clean condition & i have got to go & collect it Monday (so i don't yet have it here with me) but would appreciate if you could help / advise me as to the model etc & if it is ex military??

It looks to be from the Cold War era to me? not sure on the the country it was used in as when i google words off the front panel it is coming back with some words being Lithuanian & others Greek.

I have already tried googling Marconi Type E & other combinations to try & identify it but to no avail yet.

Any input anybody??

Cheers in advance

[G3VKM_Roger]

Was discussing this rig with a VMARS colleague and he reckoned it was made for Lithuanian military. He also thought one of the controls was for reaction and so might be a TRF receiver. Was tempted to bid but too far from here!
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Roger G3VKM

[G6Tanuki]

It does look rather like a TRF: if it was built for the military I'd expect it to be able to receive CW, which would mean if a superhet it would need a BFO-control and BFO on/off switch as well as a RF-gain control of some sort, all of which don't seem to be there....

I'd say it was pre-WWII; the dial-calibration is in Metres, which is not something I would have expected in anything post-WWII [and after WWII Lithuania was under Soviet communism so its military wouldn't be buying radios from a Western, Capitalist company, surely?]

[G3VKM_Roger]

I have had a couple of Marconi TV-10 calibration transmitters, used for setting up a D/F station, pass through my collection a few years ago. The dial used on the TV-10 s very similar to the unknown receiver, see attached.

73,

Roger/G3VKM

[M6SPW1974]

Hi Roger, thanks for your help pal , yep the main tuning control knob definitely looks the same to me

Just replied to your PM.

Best 73, Shaun