• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• HMV (Brand), His Masters Voice, The Gramophone Company Ltd.; Middlesex

• Year
• 1936

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 195737

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• X31 W31 D41 N31 U30

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 465 kHz

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

• Details
• Record Player (not changer)

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 200-250 Volt

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

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: All World Radiogram 487 - HMV Brand, His Masters Voice,

• Shape
• Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).

• Notes

• A 5 valve radiogram with a 3 band superhet radio (MW 200-580 metres, LW 750-2000 metres, SW 16.5-50 metres) and a manual turntable. With automatic voltage adjustment, two speed tuning and 3 position tone control. Released November 1936.

  Similar to the Marconiphone 392 radiogram and the HMV 493 All World Radiogram which has an automatic record changer.

• Price in first year of sale
• 21.00 GNS

• Mentioned in
• HMV 1938/9 Range of Radio, Radiograms & Accessories

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (750 dated December 1 1945)

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

• Other Models

• Here you find 425 models, 335 with images and 242 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from HMV (Brand), His Masters Voice, The Gramophone Company Ltd.; Middlesex