Golborne Vintage Radio

First the the waffle! Last week I got to visit George, who has been helping me with my amateur research into the early history of the semiconductor industry. We got ourselves a little off topic at one point and found ourselves reminiscing over the pitfalls of the TV/radio repair trade. George was telling me of an instance when a customer brought in a dead transportable (well, they had a handle on top, if you were strong enough) PYE TV, that he plugged into the only remaining socket in the workshop, a non isolated one, and was promptly delivered a massive shock...The customer had apparently needed the mains lead extended at some previous time and had done the job themselves, replacing the whole lead with a longer new one...but with two cores not three, it then only remained for a fault to develop.

I had come across one of these sets myself but neither of us could remember the model and it's been bugging us ever since, (I'm more of a radio nerd). The TV was a 12 or 14", metal case, controls on top under a flap I think, a 70° magnetically focused tube (very good picture I seem to remember) and two vertical chassis either side of the tube holding the bulk of the electronics, manufactured in the late 50's I'd guess. Is there anyone out there who could kill this memory worm for us, perhaps with a photo? Thanks!

Regards. Andy.

Pye PTV, TT1 ?

Lawrence.

(22-02-2016, 09:10 AM)pwdrive Wrote: [ -> ]Pye PTV, TT1 ?

Lawrence.

Yes that's the ones. Very good pictures and the TT1 was possibly the first UK transistorized tv on general sale.

Sorry guys, this was an all valve job, I hope the memory worm isn't catching!

I thought the PTV was a valve job?

Lawrence.

I thought PTV but it doesn't have a Flap for the Controls.
It is Valves.

Alan

More info. The main switch was a lit oblong button under the tube, all valve band 1 and 3 turret tuner single standard (405 only, obviously), hammer enamel paint finish on the case.

Almost certainly the PTV. Link to radios-tv website: http://forum.radios-tv.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6623

Geordie McBoyne.

(22-02-2016, 09:57 AM)Geordie McBoyne Wrote: [ -> ]Almost certainly the PTV. Link to radios-tv website:   http://forum.radios-tv.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6623

Geordie McBoyne.

Thanks, I think its the nearest I'm going to get, the one in the link looks like it might be an update on the one we were talking about, it had an implosion shield in front of the tube, and definitely a permanent magnet focus system (the one in the link I believe is electrostatic), the controls on top were, front inner, volume,  outer, brightness, back inner channel,  outer, fine tuning. They were on the right hand top back,(Though the picture in the link may be taken in the workshop mirror) and definitely under a flap. We may have been discussing a very earlY version of the same set maybe?

Regards. Andy.

(22-02-2016, 10:38 AM)Pat Pending Wrote: [ -> ]...Though the picture in the link may be taken in the workshop mirror ...

No! If it was, the test card would be back to front!