• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• GEC, General Electric Co Ltd., GENALEX; London

• Year
• 1939

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 201907

• • Brand: Gecophone

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• X41 KTW61 DH63 KT61 U50

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz

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

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

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

• Material
• Bakelite case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: BC4050 - GEC, General Electric Co Ltd.,

• Shape
• Tablemodel with Push Buttons.

• Notes

• An AC mains 3 band table radio housed in a bakelite cabinet. With press buttons for 8 pre-set radio stations plus 4 press buttons for waveband selection and switching off. With terminals for gramophone pickup and external loudspeaker. Released March 1939 price 10 guineas. The GEC BC4050L model is the same with different mains voltage options. The same chassis is fitted to the  GEC BC4054 console radio and a similar chassis is fitted to the GEC BC4058 radiogram. See also the GEC BC4055 DC/AC mains version and the GEC BC4056 battery version both in the same cabinet.

• Price in first year of sale
• 10.50 £

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (407 dated June 3 1939)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• - - Manufacturers Literature (GEC Service bulletin No. 65 BC4050/L, BC4054/L, BC4058/L dated 39/3)

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

• Other Models

• Here you find 443 models, 287 with images and 237 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from GEC, General Electric Co Ltd., GENALEX; London