A Seymour radio, another unusual set.

[boater sam]

Thanks guys, I'll find one 40 or 42 :1, a common value.

[Cardigan]

Having looked at the build quality of that set, I'll never complain about the build quality of Ferranti sets ever again. No doubt another manufacturer started up with demob money by a former radio technician after WW2 that rightly went to the wall.

[boater sam]

They were running before the war I fear. It was the move to Scotland that seemed strange to me, and of course it would likely have been the TV production that finished them off.

[Paul_RK]

No, there weren't any pre-war Seymours - the company was first registered, according to Iain Wright's Bulletin article (Summer 2007), in 1942. Seymour Products (Ashton), that is, which went into receivership in 1948 not long after Seymour Products (Arbroath) was set up, and that failed in its turn somewhere around 1952 - it's a complicated story. Though they exhibited a TV it doesn't seem that it ever entered production, and just general failure quite to make ends meet appears to have defeated them. The Ashton company was wound up after failing to pay £12,000-odd of purchase tax due to the Inland Revenue.

I've a couple of Seymours here, one a console model like yours - at least half the surviving Seymour sets seem to be of that model - and the other a Montrose table radio.

Paul

[boater sam]

In 1942 the engineers would not have been demobbed, the original proprietor/s must of had some prior experience of electronics.
I have tried to date my set but can find nothing with a date on. It does not seem to be all surplus components but I can't imagine that they could obtain many parts until hostilities had ended and the factories ceased warwork.
Hard to understand that if loads of cheap surplus was available later why they would have gone under so soon, they must have sold a reasonable number of sets as there seems to be quite a few around and particularly console models would be the first to be dumped for a new set replacement in the '50s.
I could not understand the reasoning behind a move to the Scottish Borders as I said before.

[radioman]

I've got a Seymour (Ashton) table set here - it is very 'rough' though.
As to Arbroath, it's no where near the Scottish Borders - it's north of Dundee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbroath

Andy

[boater sam]

Its too many years since I've been for smokies. Over the border then, I'm only an ignorant sassenach whisky drinker.

[boater sam]

In post 15 I was wrong, there is a large electrolytic dated June 47, so along with the USA Sprague caps it looks like a surplus junk special after all. Its caused some hilarity anyway, there are members who think its untidy!