Name: | Ready Radio; Blackheath, London S.E. (GB) |
Abbreviation: | readyradio |
Products: | Model types Others |
Summary: |
Ready Radio Eastnor House, Blackheath, London S.E. 3, UK Suppliers of Kendall and Kendall-Price Radio kits, Radio accessories and Radio parts. |
Founded: | 1926 |
Closed: | 1934 |
History: |
Often styled "Ready Radio" in same font and style (long underlines from initial letters) as Ever Ready used in late 1920s & early 1930s. Also published small booklets of radio designs by Mr. G.P. Kendall BSc. & Mr H.D. Price and possibly other designers.
It should be noted that the parts don't look like Lissen parts (Ever Ready took a controlling share in 1928 in Lissen and marketed Lissen Radios with Ever Ready Branding from 1934) despite this and lack of any other evidence people have speculated that Ready Radio was an Ever Ready brand. Since the 32 page post 1928 "Ready Radio Prize Circuits" extensively promotes Pertrix for HT, GB and accumulators, Mullard for Valves(tubes) and TCC for Condensers(Capacitors)we can say that "Ready Radio" was not connected to Ever Ready but simply copying the style the company name used.
Telegram address was "Readirad" Blackvil London, the same name as on at least one Model. Pertrix (Varta)was marketed then by "Britanna Batteries Ltd" 233 Shaftesbury Ave. London (branches Manchester, Bristol. Glasgow and Dublin). Took two full page adverts in very first edition of Practical Wireless (September 1932) The "Ready Radio Prize Circuits" must be published first published late 1932 at earliest as it lists a Pen4V
Complete list: PM2DX, PM12A, PM1LF, PM2, PM2A, PM22, PM22A, Pen4V, S4V, 354V 054V, PM252, DW2 Many of the designs though are typical of 1929 and of course the simpler ones are mechanically and electrically similar to earlier all triode designs (SG replacing triode for first RF stage). |
This manufacturer was suggested by Michael Watterson.
Country | Year | Name | 1st Tube | Notes |
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GB | 32 | Kendall-Price S.W. Adaptor | "Converts any set with one or more L.F. stages into a high efficiency short wave outfit... | |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price S.G. Four | PM12A | "Should give 40 or 50 stations on the speaker after dark with ease ... " Designer r... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price S.W. Two | PM2DX | Waveband is 15 to 35m or 30 to 80m depending on coil unit wired in (not plug-in). The "... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price Two | PM2DX | Will drive speaker for local stations and powerful foreign stations after dark. PM2... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price Three | PM2DX | "Can be depended on for at least fifteen stations on the speaker after dark ... " R... |
GB | 32 | ReadiRad ST300 | PM12A | From photographs and description it's the Ready Radio version of a Scott-Taggart ST... |
GB | 31 | Selectivity Unit | Aerial / preselector with Bypass and Earthed switch positions. From instructions would ... | |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price S.G.3 [A.C.] | S4V | One of ten designs in Ready Radio's "Kendall-Price book of ten circuits",... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price D.C. Mains Unit | For D.C. Mains. Only provides HT. Ebonite panel and wooden baseboard construction (... | |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price S.G. Three [Battery] | PM12A | The Kendal-Price S.G. Three A.C. is similar, but using indirectly heated valves (tubes)... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price All-Wave Three | PM2DX | Based on Kendall's earlier Meteor Three (1928 to 1930?), replacing original battery con... |
GB | 32 | Kendall-Price A.C. Power Unit | DW2_Mullard | PSU for Kendall-Price A.C. models (4V heaters) or other suitable Radio sets. Ebonit... |
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