• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Bendix Radio Division; Baltimore, MD

• Year
• 1958 ?

• Category
• Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 195803

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• 12CX6 12AD6 12CN5 12J8

• Number of Transistors
• 1

• Semiconductors
• 2N155

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 262.5 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 7 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 12 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)

• Power out
• 2.5 W (max.)

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Ford 74BF Ch= FEG-18805 - Bendix Radio Division;

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Notes

• The Bendix 74BF is a 4 tube battery operated AM Receiver for Ford Automobiles with Transistorized Output. SAMS Photofact calls out the output transistor as using 2N155, 2N301 or 2N242, however actual radio's have also used 2N235A transistors.

• Mentioned in
• - - Manufacturers Literature (Bendix Radio Service Manual Part No. A2090140-6 3-57)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Date 5-58, Set 399, Folder 6)

• Author
• Model page created by Egon Penker. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 445 models, 360 with images and 221 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Bendix Radio Division; Baltimore, MD