British made Philco and GEC radios - with nudes!

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I'm just in the process of unpacking some stuff I shipped over from my old family home in England. While I was there, my dad and I cleared out the attic (loft). We found a couple of old tube radios which I bought over with me, and have just taken pictures of for your delight.

The Philco is a model A3704, and works fine. I put a plug on it while I was over there, and listened to it for several hours. The smell of burning dust on the hot tubes brought back memories, for this was the radio I used to have in my room. Those white knobs in the centre of each control aren't original, those crumbled and fell apart years ago. I can tell you exactly where these replacement knobs came from, they were from my old etch-a-sketch.

You'll notice from the nude pictures that this radio doesn't have a power transformer. There is a big wire-wound resistor that you can change to different voltages (although nothing below 200v). It will also run on DC as well as AC. I'm sure it would come back to life over here in the US if I got a powerful enough step up transformer.

I took the tubes out so you could see the all-original Mullards.








The GEC is a model 5243 (I think), and currently is missing a tube (a U50 whatever that is) and the speaker. From the nudie pictures, it looks to have a power transformer, but sadly like the Philco nothing below 190v AC. Again, I took the tubes out so you could see the original Osrams.









Hope you enjoy looking at these pics.