• Country
• Italy

• Manufacturer / Brand
• CGE, Compagnia Generale di Elettricità; Milano

• Year
• 1936/1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 30513

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• Number of Tubes
• 8

• Valves / Tubes
• 6A7 78 75 76 6E5 45 45 5Z3

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 459 kHz

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

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

• Details
• Record Player (not changer)

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110; 125; 130; 140; 170; 230; 255 Volt

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

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Radiofonografo 253 R.G. - CGE, Compagnia Generale di

• Shape
• Console with any shape - in general

• Notes

• Modello 253 radiofonografo con giradischi ad induzione; anche in versione 253A Fonotrionda con cambiadischi.

  Controllo di tono.
  Sullo schema i valori delle tensioni di alimentazione sono invertiti.

• Price in first year of sale
• 3,250.00 ITL

• Source of data
• Guida Pratica Antique Radio III (2000)

• Mentioned in
• La moderna Supereterodina, Ravalico, 1938 (pag. 358)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Il Radio Libro (E.D. Ravalico) Edizioni Hoepli

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• -- Schematic (Schemario degli Apparecchi Radio. D.E. Ravalico – Hoepli – 1944.)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• -- Schematic (D.E. Ravalico Il Radio Libro Quinta Edizione Hoepli.)

• Author
• Model page created by Alessandro De Poi. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 323 models, 260 with images and 238 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from CGE, Compagnia Generale di Elettricità; Milano