Anyone recognise this?

[Mike Watterson]

Scale found in my Grannies' sewing box.
   

Sorry it's at an angle. MW would be across the top half.

An unusual feature is the HF & LF ends are reversed from the common.

It might be a valve portable because I only remember them having a Roberts model from 1960s onwards.

The alignments will be with tuner fully closed and at the two dots, as a fully open tuning capacitor tends to increase in capacitance again as stop on rotor hits stator.

I'd thought at first impossible to know what radio, but the reversed layout may help.

Just curious.

[pamphonica]

I think the scales are the right way round.  Standard practice for any early transistor portable. The dial rotates so the markings are this way round. Very like my Pam TB61. c. 1961
-Jeremy

[Paul_RK]

As Jeremy says, a very similar dial indeed: yours is from a Pye Q8.

https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/wp-content/u...CF0351.JPG

Paul

[Mike Watterson]

Well, amazingly though I have a few Pye and loads of sets with a round MW/LW scale like this, none are that way round. It is likely off a Pye Q8 unless there was another set with an identical scale.

They later had a Roberts with VHF, either an R700 or an R600 (or maybe both sequentially). I don't remember seeing the Q8.

Mind, they did have a Decca RG100*, probably from new and passed it on to us in the 1960s.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/decca_2_rg100.html
HUGE!
They got one of those Dansette style portable record players instead (which I have in the attic, restored (but no brand on it, nor on a a similar older one my aunt gave me, though it was likely Belfast Co-op own brand). Found it in my mum's attic. Sadly she binned the working Roberts when my Grandfather died and neither grandparent smoked).

I don't remember if it was as late as 1966 when the R700 came out.

I wonder why the scale plate ended up in the sewing box? My mum had put grans sewing box away in about 1990 and forgotten about it.

Mystery as to source solved, thanks. Though I suppose we'll never know why!

[* There is a mad story about the gradual demise of the RG100. I don't remember the final end of it, or my R1155 I got in 1966].

I need to start giving away stuff if no-one is going to take it all.

Let me know if anyone needs a Q8 scale plate!