16-11-2025, 03:04 PM
Ha!.
There are no shortage of ghastly sets 1922 to 1950 that are worse.
A lot of dodgy stuff 1945 to 1950 due to shortages of civilian parts but loads of "war surplus". Even some test gear makers after 1950.
It looks to me like it was modified after-market and original back lost.
It's like late 1940s in a 1929 case. Wood for cabinets was in short supply 1942 to 1951, hence the 1944 Civilian model looks like it is make of tea chests. Many 1945 to 1951 models used steel or perspex.
The three model Cs from Ever Ready (1946 to 1948 and the first used valves already 4 years obsolete) had a lot perspex sheet as it was cheap to buy (war surplus) and easily bent to shape. It also used a lot of very cheap poor quality plywood, hence two layer cracked effect paint on sides. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_ca.html
Ever Read even had a cheap metal only model not long after the war (1948).
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_h.html I have one, and it's better than a 1929 4 valve set!
I also have a commercial made UK FM radio that used an Ever Ready BEREC case and chassis.
The real Ever Ready model, which was a failure in the African market due to Supersonic models.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/berec_pioneer.html (1955 - 1957)
Gladstone commercial FM radio (not a kit), in BEREC Pioneer case, even using Ever Ready Chassis
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/gladstone_...valve.html
Really quite unprofessionally built. Using a pre-built Mullard VHF tuner/oscillator helped.
They did sell kits too, including even actual Pioneer kits. I guess they bought the entire Ever Ready inventory of the Pioneer.
Supersonic 1955 model https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/mullard_d11.html
Supersonic, likely 1957 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_d16.html
Supersonic's early transistor model: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_pr84.html Likely 1961 or 1962
A ?? on a Radiomuseum date means the originator guessed.
There are loads of commercial sets worse than this 1935 beast
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_5017.html
I have also a Kolster Brands Battery/mains valve set in a mad case, and though Mike Edwards thought it was one re-homed, he wasn't 100% sure.
Pye did this in 1950 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_pe55mbqpe_55_mb.html
This is a nice 1945 UK model, but it's all imported USA parts
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/portadyne_...model.html
OTOH this beast with a metal grill is 1949-1950 Pye Ireland https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_39_jhe.html
The UK version had speaker cloth.
Renting radios and radios on HP was a thing in the 1950s, and you'd get a 55" TV today for the equivalent money of a decent 1950 Bakelite Radio. My parents only had a Vidor suitcase style battery valve portable in 1954.
There are no shortage of ghastly sets 1922 to 1950 that are worse.
A lot of dodgy stuff 1945 to 1950 due to shortages of civilian parts but loads of "war surplus". Even some test gear makers after 1950.
It looks to me like it was modified after-market and original back lost.
It's like late 1940s in a 1929 case. Wood for cabinets was in short supply 1942 to 1951, hence the 1944 Civilian model looks like it is make of tea chests. Many 1945 to 1951 models used steel or perspex.
The three model Cs from Ever Ready (1946 to 1948 and the first used valves already 4 years obsolete) had a lot perspex sheet as it was cheap to buy (war surplus) and easily bent to shape. It also used a lot of very cheap poor quality plywood, hence two layer cracked effect paint on sides. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_ca.html
Ever Read even had a cheap metal only model not long after the war (1948).
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_h.html I have one, and it's better than a 1929 4 valve set!
I also have a commercial made UK FM radio that used an Ever Ready BEREC case and chassis.
The real Ever Ready model, which was a failure in the African market due to Supersonic models.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/berec_pioneer.html (1955 - 1957)
Gladstone commercial FM radio (not a kit), in BEREC Pioneer case, even using Ever Ready Chassis
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/gladstone_...valve.html
Really quite unprofessionally built. Using a pre-built Mullard VHF tuner/oscillator helped.
They did sell kits too, including even actual Pioneer kits. I guess they bought the entire Ever Ready inventory of the Pioneer.
Supersonic 1955 model https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/mullard_d11.html
Supersonic, likely 1957 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_d16.html
Supersonic's early transistor model: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_pr84.html Likely 1961 or 1962
A ?? on a Radiomuseum date means the originator guessed.
There are loads of commercial sets worse than this 1935 beast
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_5017.html
I have also a Kolster Brands Battery/mains valve set in a mad case, and though Mike Edwards thought it was one re-homed, he wasn't 100% sure.
Pye did this in 1950 https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_pe55mbqpe_55_mb.html
This is a nice 1945 UK model, but it's all imported USA parts
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/portadyne_...model.html
OTOH this beast with a metal grill is 1949-1950 Pye Ireland https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_39_jhe.html
The UK version had speaker cloth.
Renting radios and radios on HP was a thing in the 1950s, and you'd get a 55" TV today for the equivalent money of a decent 1950 Bakelite Radio. My parents only had a Vidor suitcase style battery valve portable in 1954.
