What's that tube doing there?

[dr.ido]

Originally Posted by daro

I also remember the practice was used in some Australian designs as well, The early PYE W101 & W201's mounted the 2 6N3 rectifiers on the power TX & I think there was a couple of others as well.

I stripped a lot of old tube B&W sets as a kid (I wish I had some of those sets now, but don't we all) including a lot of Pye's and I've never seen transformer mounted rectifiers.

I wonder if those sets were more common outside of Victoria for some reason.