I found another one: Astor Royal 25.

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Old sets seem to be coming out of the woodwork in this area this year.

This Astor Royal 25 was found outside the same house that I found the Devon Fringe that I posted an earlier thread about. It wasn't there when I picked the first set up. I'm guessing the house was recently sold and the new people are clearly out stuff left behind by the previous owners. I left the a late 70s AWA color set (probably made by Mitsubishi) behind.

It's a later/cheaper set than the Devon. The cabinet is mainly plastic coated steel with an unfinished fibreboard base, where the Devon has veneered chipboard and a few pieces of real timber. It would have originally had a set of short screw in legs.



This set has the series 11 hybrid chassis and a 1969 datecode. It definitely looks like an evolution of the series 5A chassis in the Devon. The HV cage, audio amp and delfection section look identical. Transistors have replaced the rest of the tubes though. There are no paper caps on this chassis.

At first glance I though it might drop straight into the Devon, but there are a lot of small changes that aren't immediately obvious.

This one will probably end up being a parts donor.