• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Alba (Brand) Balcombe Ltd., ALBA (Radio & Television) Ltd; London

• Year
• 1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 201100

• • Brand: Alba

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• TH4 VP4B TDD4 PenB4 IW4/350

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 117.5 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, Long Wave and Short Wave.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 190-250 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Armchair Console Receiver 625 - Alba Brand Balcombe Ltd., ALBA

• Shape
• Console: Chairside Radio.

• Notes

• A similar chassis is fitted to the Alba 825 table radio and the 920 auto-radiogram.

  Shares chairside cabinet with Armchair Console models 635 and 615.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (283)

• Author
• Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 253 models, 132 with images and 165 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Alba (Brand) Balcombe Ltd., ALBA (Radio & Television) Ltd; London