09-12-2016, 06:01 PM
I've got a radio with American "Mullard" valves. I think as well as selling Continental made Philips under their own brand from not long after 1928, the Amerty valves (tubes?) are late 1930s to early 1950s? Were they all RCA or a mix?
Anyway BVA seemed to have been more a UK based sellers cartel than actually to do with where the valves were really made? Were all Brimar UK made or some USA?
I don't know. The last two officially sanctioned cartels in UK and Ireland were book prices and pharmacies. Wholesale set Retail pricing ended quite recently. Governments used to actually support and enforce cartels, strange as it seems today.
Anyway BVA seemed to have been more a UK based sellers cartel than actually to do with where the valves were really made? Were all Brimar UK made or some USA?
I don't know. The last two officially sanctioned cartels in UK and Ireland were book prices and pharmacies. Wholesale set Retail pricing ended quite recently. Governments used to actually support and enforce cartels, strange as it seems today.
