• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Marconi Co. (Marconiphone, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.), GB (not tubes - see also HMV His Master's Voice)

• Year
• 1932

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 195969

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• S21 HL2 S21 S21 HL2 PT2

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 125 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.

• Power type and voltage
• Storage and/or dry batteries / 2 & 4,5 & 129 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Magnetic loudspeaker (reed) generic.

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 255 - Marconi Co. Marconiphone,

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Notes
• Moving iron loudspeaker. See also the later Marconiphone 255MC model which has a moving coil loudspeaker and no local/distant control. Similar to the HMV 459 model.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader sheet 539

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

• Other Models

• Here you find 501 models, 334 with images and 317 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Marconi Co. (Marconiphone, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.), GB (not tubes - see also HMV His Master's Voice)