• Country
• Australia

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Philips Australia

• Year
• 1931/1932

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 119971

• Number of Tubes
• 3

• Valves / Tubes
• E442S C443 506

• Main principle
• TRF (Tuned-Radio-Frequency but use of regeneration unknown)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 240 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Magnetic loudspeaker (reed) of high quality (free mooving - only possible past 1931).

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 1203 - Philips Australia

• Shape
• Console, Highboy (legs > 50 %).

• Notes
• The Australia Philips model 1203 was published as "new" in Australian "Wireless Weekly" issue October 16, 1931 and was therefore for the season 1931/32. The model 1203 is also mentioned in NZVRS Bulletin Vol. 13, No. 4, February 1993. The loudspeaker is shown in the ad with the text "Special Philips speaker Unit, scientifically baffled and buit-in beneath the cabinet. Full-floading cone. ... Dual-drum control makes tuning extremely simple. Left drum controls volume - right drum, tuning selector." This indicates that already in 1931 existed full floating magnetic loudspakers, not only since 1932 (in Germany "Freischwinger" 1932 and later).

• Price in first year of sale
• 24.00 pound

• Source of data
• -- Original prospect or advert

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Wireless Weekly (Australia) (Ad as "new", October 16, 1931.)

• Author
• Model page created by Wolfgang Thiel. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 910 models, 708 with images and 421 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Philips Australia