Early Australian Astor B&W set

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by zeno

I started in '70 & we saw little from the 50's, usually
old folk had them. UHF was important & most sets
didnt have it til mandated in '64 so old stuff went
away fast.

Loved those sticks, saved time when the HV filament
wire was arcing. A pain to change on some sets........

Its a cool set that could tell some stories. In the states
when someone got an early set everyone would come
over to watch. They would stare at the Indian head test
pattern for hours waiting for a show.

73 Zeno

The stick shown, looks like the selenium type that GE and a few others used.
It's hard tp believe that some areas didn't have UHF channels, until it was mandated. Milwaukee had UHF from 1953. There was a lot of UHF convertors used as many of the sets in use were rather new.