• Year
  • 1948 ?
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 274664

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 10
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage
  • Tuned circuits
  • 7 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.
  • Details
  • Changer (Record changer)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 40-100 Hz, 180-250 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: ARG 101 - Peto Scott Co. Ltd. & British
  • Shape
  • Miscellaneous shapes - described under notes.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 1103 x 1123 x 540 mm / 43.4 x 44.2 x 21.3 inch
  • Notes
  • Believed to have been produced for the Radio-Olympia exhibition of 1948.

    Hand made over sized cabinet in Queen Anne style, taken from a piece at the Victoria and Albert Museum - London. Briefly comprising of a lift up lid with florentine bronzed lid stay, serpantine front with false draws to the sides, cuboard doors which reveal the speaker and another false draw above that opens to show the control panel. The control panel can also be accessed from inside the lid of the cabinet, which also houses the radio controls, record storage and Garrard record changer.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 258.00 GB£
  • Author
  • Model page created by Steve Woodward. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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