MCR-1

[pwdrive]

The reason I asked was twofold. First, once such Dates appear in 'Print' they tend to get propagated. Second, Post-war Portables, such as the Pye 75B which was released in 1946, still used the '30' Series Octal Valves, which would seem a bit strange if B7G Valves were available 3 years earlier. It wasn't until 1949 as far as I can tell that Pye used the '91' Series Valves, a full 6 Years after they were apparently available.

Not counting the MCR-1 and it's American equivalent, what other Sets were those Valves used in before the end of WWII?

Alan

Using Radiomuseum as a starting base there were several USA manufactures making them circa 1941, eg: Crosley Commuter, Farnsworth CT59 etc.

Only British one I can find so far apart from the MRC-1 is the R209 (MK1) Reception Set circa 1945, but I haven't pinned down the start of production date.

Lawrence.

[AlanBeckett]

Splendid.
Odd that it took so long to hit the Domestic Market, but I expect we were broke and using up what we had.

Alan

[pwdrive]

The first I can find after WW2 in the UK was the Romac 106 circa 1946, the mainstream UK manufactures seemed to have kicked off once the DK, DF series of valves were in production and using that series of valves.

Lawrence.

[Murphyv310]

Hi.
I had Two of these wonderful MCR1, receivers when I was quite young, with the coil packs, headphones, battery pack and biscuit tins.
I'd give my arm and leg for them now.
I am seriously jealous.

[tonywestbrook]

Thanks for all the interest in the receiver. There is a bit more of a write up on it here.
http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/photos/mcr-1.htm
It seems it was manufactured by Philco of all people. although it's old and limited in band coverage, when I did some checks on it it had a sensitivity of about 1uV on AM and abou 0.3uV CW. The other noticable thing about it is the lack of background noise comared to some modern day receivers.