Mystery Pye set 1935/36 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

stevekendal · 3rd Feb 2023, 1:02 am

Typical 1936 Pye upright style with 3 vertical slats, 3 knobs and small horizontal tuning scale. Unusually, this radio has an apex "shed roof" top and wooden carrying handles, but it is a mains set. Any ideas please?

Cobaltblue · 3rd Feb 2023, 3:11 am

Hi Steve from your description possibly a T/M

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_tm.html

Cheers

Mike T

Station X · 3rd Feb 2023, 8:23 am

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Originally Posted by stevekendal

Typical 1936 Pye upright style with 3 vertical slats, 3 knobs and small horizontal tuning scale. Unusually, this radio has an apex "shed roof" top and wooden carrying handles, but it is a mains set. Any ideas please?

Pictures would help.

Paul_RK · 3rd Feb 2023, 8:49 am

Does sound like a T/M. Large table models weighing at a guess around 25-30 lbs. but with frame aerials so that they could be used wherever there was a mains socket and provided with handles of one kind or another (the Ekco ACT96 is another example) came and went rapidly around 1935/36, I can only guess because there wasn't much public enthusiasm for lugging them from room to room at all often.

Paul

Cobaltblue · 4th Feb 2023, 9:30 am

Hi Steve is this the set?

Cheers

Mike T

stevehertz · 4th Feb 2023, 9:37 am

At that time Pye seemed to almost have a policy of not identifying sets.

stevekendal · 7th Feb 2023, 9:31 pm

Yes, thankyou all. Its a TM
Oh dear, its a TRF

Cathovisor · 8th Feb 2023, 8:48 pm

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Originally Posted by stevekendal

Yes, thankyou all. Its a TM
Oh dear, its a TRF

TRFs are fine. The high-end German manufacturer Körting was turning them out as late as 1939 - complete with diode detection and neon tuning indicators (e.g. the Novum 40, of which I have an example). Some sets were switchable TRF/superhet - the argument was that for local quality reception a TRF didn't suffer from conversion noise in the way a superhet did and you could also get a wider bandwidth.

In the UK many bespoke manufacturers of high-end sets also did the same - Haynes for one, Expert another.

3rd Feb 2023, 1:02 am	#1
stevekendal Heptode Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Kendal, Cumbria, UK. Posts: 621	Mystery Pye set 1935/36 Typical 1936 Pye upright style with 3 vertical slats, 3 knobs and small horizontal tuning scale. Unusually, this radio has an apex "shed roof" top and wooden carrying handles, but it is a mains set. Any ideas please? __________________ Knobs and tubes rule ok

3rd Feb 2023, 3:11 am	#2
Cobaltblue Moderator Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Exeter, Devon and Poole, Dorset UK. Posts: 6,251	Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36 Hi Steve from your description possibly a T/M https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_tm.html Cheers Mike T __________________ Don't care if it was a bargain why's it in my kitchen Mike T BVWS member. www.cossor.co.uk

3rd Feb 2023, 8:49 am	#4
Paul_RK Dekatron Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Fakenham, Norfolk, UK. Posts: 3,792	Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36 Does sound like a T/M. Large table models weighing at a guess around 25-30 lbs. but with frame aerials so that they could be used wherever there was a mains socket and provided with handles of one kind or another (the Ekco ACT96 is another example) came and went rapidly around 1935/36, I can only guess because there wasn't much public enthusiasm for lugging them from room to room at all often. Paul

4th Feb 2023, 9:30 am	#5
Cobaltblue Moderator Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Exeter, Devon and Poole, Dorset UK. Posts: 6,251	Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36 Hi Steve is this the set? Cheers Mike T Attached Thumbnails __________________ Don't care if it was a bargain why's it in my kitchen Mike T BVWS member. www.cossor.co.uk

4th Feb 2023, 9:37 am	#6
stevehertz Dekatron Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK. Posts: 7,864	Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36 At that time Pye seemed to almost have a policy of not identifying sets. __________________ A digital radio is the latest thing, but a vintage wireless is forever..

7th Feb 2023, 9:31 pm	#7
stevekendal Heptode Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Kendal, Cumbria, UK. Posts: 621	Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36 Yes, thankyou all. Its a TM Oh dear, its a TRF __________________ Knobs and tubes rule ok Last edited by stevekendal; 7th Feb 2023 at 9:47 pm.