Philips Repro Superinductance R634/15.

[Yorkie]

Thanks for the update Gary - most interesting.

My knowledge of them is very sketchy - I've never liked them - far too large and ungainly for my liking, and most that I've seen have been got at by the 'bodgertronics brigade' - more than once I guess! Sets of that era beg the question of should the be 'conserved' or restored, but that's a topic that tends to generate more heat than light.

We visit many National Trust houses, and although the NT make a big thing about sympathetic 'conservation' of buildings and their contents, they almost always have vinitage radio sets on display which have had all their innards ripped out and an MP3 player inside pumping out music. Dire, but someone in vintage radio circles will obviously do the bidding of the NT and supply what they ask for. (Haven't yet come across an 'Ovaltiny' that's had this treatment, but then most have already been vandalised in one way or another. I guess the NT probably think it's safer to treat radios like this rather than use restored ones that don't, and can't comply with current standards in some respects, which they wouldn't like to leave switched on an unattended all day long.