(02-05-2026, 09:49 AM)Mike Watterson Wrote: How many had custom radio packs rather than D, PP9, etc?
Was the 6V PP1 short lived for new models?
One Ever Ready table model must have the largest pack for a transistor set?
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ever_sky_prince_2.html
Used the monster PP10. I made a replica filled with D cells.
No PP9s among those sets, unless the Ace used it, that's a model I don't know at all. The only PP batteries I'm aware of there are the PP4 (Cossor 561) and PP11 (KB Rhapsody), most of the earliest models used D or C cells.
The PP1 was popular fairly early on, but not for long - the sets coming to mind that used it (Roberts RT1 - with larger PP8 as an alternative, Murphy B385/B485, Ultra TR60, Ekco BPT333/Ferranti PT1010 etc.) are all from 1958-61.
I don't remember seeing PP10s in shops after about 1970, but HMV/Ferguson had early AM/FM table models that used them: then there was the HMV 2104, a large portable that had a reversible battery connector with snaps on one side for a strapped-in PP9 and pins on the other for the long-life option of a PP10.
Paul
