[Reece]

What I was getting at is that the el cheapo two or three tube sets made in USA were really made on the cheap with as few parts as possible, no dial light, no "airplane type" dial but the tuning condensor with the knob directly on its shaft, no mains transformer, the heaters in series, and the extra voltage drop to the heaters handled by a big resistor on chassis, or a resistance-type line cord, which had a thin nichrome resistor wire wound around an (gasp!) asbestos core. The cord would get warm in use and the user was warned to leave it extended so that it would dissipate the heat, but who reads warnings? These things earned the moniker "curtain burners!" Some of these sets got put in metal cabinets besides increasing their potential (pun) to be little shockers, all of which seems pretty far-fetched today, but we pioneers were a tougher lot then. I know Aussies were, too, but dealing with dropping 240 volts through a line cord would have been another story, thus the mains transformer in your set. Do you know of any Austrailian sets that don't have a mains transformer, but are connected directly to the line? That may have been prohibited by some code.