New Zealand made TV sets

[Glenz75]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

Thanks for your info on the NZ brands Glen. I'm currently collecting information on early Australian colour TV brands and the chassis used and it is useful to have the NZ perspective given how close the two countries are.

The Philips K9 console is particularly interesting as the sliders move sideways whereas all the Australian sets had up and down sliders.

We had the same early Thorns here as well but they are extremely rare sets. I'm still trying to find a Thorn 4000 chassis for a set in my collection thats incomplete.

Your NZ Pye's are probably UK designed. It would be interesting to know which chassis was used. The Australian Pye's are unique as the chassis was designed here. It is one of only three brands that used an Australian designed chassis.

Thinking about it now, I'm pretty sure our Pye's were designed here too, both b/w and colour sets.
Funny you should mention about the K9 slider controls, I did have an overseas K9 that had up/down sliders and it had a live chassis, where as our K9's were isolated, so it may have been an Australian set, and it gave a fantastic picture, I'm not sure what happened to that set, it was a long time ago

The Thorn 4000 series I have never heard of, we had the 9000 series here and they were also bit unreliable the CRT's always went bad. The chassis slid out on two rails and it had three boards which swung out/lifted up and it had that weird cyclops power supply/line stage setup. The larger sets had Toshiba CRTs and they did produce a pretty good picture, just that chassis let them down. I haven't seen a 9000 series set for quite some time, most of them will be long gone now.

G.