Empire Automatic de Luxe S521 W

Philco Radio & Television Corp. of Great Britain Ltd.; London

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  • Year
  • 1938
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 312577

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 5
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 475 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries / 120 + 9 + 2 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 8 inch = 20.3 cm
  • Power out
  • 0.6 W (undistorted)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Empire Automatic de Luxe S521 [W] - Philco Radio & Television Corp
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Notes

  • A 2 band battery powered table radio in a wooden cabinet. Automatic Teledial tuning with 7 push buttons preset to 7 MW and 3 LW radio stations, glowing beam station indicator and manual tuning (MW 200-550 metres, LW 1100-1900 metres). With full delayed A.V.C., and extension speaker sockets. The batteries required are a 2 volt LT accumulator and a combined 120 volt HT / 9 volt grid bias battery, the Ever Ready Portable 34 is suitable.

    The same chassis is fitted into the Philco Empire Automatic S521B table radio housed in a bakelite cabinet.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 10.00 GNS
  • Mentioned in
  • Cat. Philco October 1938 p. 7
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • - - Manufacturers Literature (Philco Radio Service Bulletin No. 85 dated July 1938)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Manfred Rathgeb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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