Sunshine

Carlyle & Co. (Sunshine Radio); Perth, Western Australia

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  • Year
  • 1934
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 265067

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 5
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 5 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC)
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Sunshine - Carlyle & Co. Sunshine Radio;
  • Shape
  • Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).
  • Notes

  • As advertised in the "Daily News" newspaper of April 9, 1934 this radio was demonstrated by G.F. Kearns in Perth, Western Australia as below  

    'Sunshine' radio is demonstrated by G. F Kearns of Hay-street, Perth. 'The cabinet is a full-sized floor 'console of delightful conception and superior construction. It is polished to a high lustre. The electro-dynamic full-sized speaker is specially matched to the output valve to ensure faultless reproduction. The chassis is a superheterodyne five-valve using a three-gang pre-selector to ensure sharp tuning. Adequate station separation and absence of double spot tuning. Each chassis is ' individually tested on signal generator before delivery. Apart from the rectifier valve used, there is the 58 triple grid super control amplifier, 2A7 Pent-a- grid converter, 2B7 Duplex Diode Pentode and 2A5 power amplifier pentode.

  • Author
  • Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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