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Radio Wrangler · 20th Jan 2019, 6:14 am

Is that a water-filled lens?

EF50 were only just a pre-war development. There's an interesting tale of how Philips got them and their production equipment off to Britain only just ahead of the invading Nazis. They couldn't have been in any production TVs by then.

After the war they cropped up in RADAR IF strips which were handy for TV builders. I think this set has one at upper right, probably set up as a TRF for channel 1.

The CRT base is huge, is that a socket for the side-contact base of a VCR97 I-spy?

David

20th Jan 2019, 6:14 am	#10
Radio Wrangler Moderator Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fife, Scotland, UK. Posts: 22,901	Re: Mystery set to identify! pre-war? Is that a water-filled lens? EF50 were only just a pre-war development. There's an interesting tale of how Philips got them and their production equipment off to Britain only just ahead of the invading Nazis. They couldn't have been in any production TVs by then. After the war they cropped up in RADAR IF strips which were handy for TV builders. I think this set has one at upper right, probably set up as a TRF for channel 1. The CRT base is huge, is that a socket for the side-contact base of a VCR97 I-spy? David __________________ Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done