Radios I've owned over the years

[Old Sparky]

Back in Summer 1955, the first radio my father bought after we move house, was an Ever Ready Sky Queen, mk! (The metal chassis version).  We later had the Printed circuit model.  The first radio I bought  personally was a Fidelity Coronet in Autmn 1958.  Later I had a Sobell 'World Ranger' in about 1963 or 4, followed by a (Mitsubishi?) transistorised AM (MW Only) Table Radio, bought from Curry's in Oxford in 1967.  Somewhere in between there was a Ferguson 3-band (MW.LW, & VHF) largeish Battery Portable, which I can still picture, but have no idea what the model number was, then a 'Westminster' version of the Perdio Portable Radio which had a rotary tuning dial at the top RH side, a Telescopic aerial (Why-it was only MW/LW?).  At some point, I fitted two DIN sockets to this radio, one, a 180 degree type, to allow connection to a cassette recorder, the other, 240 degree 5-pin socket being wired to acceot a mains PSU wired to the then Philips convention, probably because I could then use the same mains unit to power either the Philips N2202 recorder or the radio, both of which would run quite happioly from an 8v stabilsed DC supply.  All the above radios are long gone, as is the N2202, and I have no photos of any to post, though I'd like to cofirm the identity of the red Transistor table Radio mentioned, and also establish the model no. of the Ferguson Portable, which would have been new in about 1964 or 65. i recall that my father wondered what was the point of paying extra for the VHF band, when, at that time of course, there was nothing on VHF which wasn't available on MW or LW! I forgot the Vidor Valve Portable(CN430?) which I resued from being scrapped one day back in 1968, only to scrap it myself some years later!