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Originally Posted by Tractorfan
Hi,
My aunty had one of those during my early years. It was badged as 'Ever Ready' rather than 'BEREC'.
I wonder why the difference? Were they for different markets?
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I suspect in this instance it was mainly a case of different retail outlets. There are a lot of Sky Leaders around, but Berec Demons aren't nearly so uncommon as they would be had they been for export, and I'm not sure there was ever much of an export market for LW/MW portables.
The other model is a Berec Pioneer - it was offered with different combinations of SW bands with, usually, MW, according to the territory it was bound for.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/berec_pioneer.html
Strictly an export set by intention, but surplus examples were offered ready built or as kits through PW and suchlike for quite some time in the '60s.
Paul