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Old 12th Jan 2021, 9:27 pm   #1
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Default Peto Scott Trophy 8 receiver

I acquired one of these sets a few years ago and have only just got around to taking the chassis out of the case. The underside layout is totally different to the extracts from the Radio Marketing Service Man's Manual available on the internet, which show most of the components scattered all over the base.
As you can see from the pictures a lot of components are neatly placed on paxolin tag-boards down two sides. Someone has replaced 2 electrolytic capacitors, one is dated 1948, the other 1983, otherwise appears original except for the extra jack socket on the front panel. Case is black-crackle finish all over and chassis is painted beige.
Behind the yellowed celluloid dial there is a graphical symbol PSEI.
Chassis number plate on rear shows 00566.
Some of the wax-paper caps are numbered 443, presumably dated 4/1943.
Have yet to verify published circuit diagrams match the actual receiver.
Has anyone else got one of these quite rare sets?
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Old 13th Jan 2021, 9:57 pm   #2
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Default Re: Peto Scott Trophy 8 receiver

I did have one of these for a while, I sold it quite a few years ago. It had been heavily restored by a previous owner and worked well. I still have pictures of the top and bottom of the chassis.
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Old 13th Jan 2021, 10:51 pm   #3
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Default Re: Peto Scott Trophy 8 receiver

ISTR this set uses the oddball EF8 low-noise hexode as RF stage, one of those intriguing off-shoots in the late '30s valve performance arms race. I suppose this set would have been comparable with the middling-complexity Hallicarafters of the time- I'm sure I'd read that it was one of those sets hurriedly requisitioned for monitoring purposes early in the war before CR100, HRO, AR88 etc. came on stream in big numbers. Worth restoring to good working order.
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Old 14th Jan 2021, 8:48 pm   #4
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Default Re: Peto Scott Trophy 8 receiver

I never managed to find an 8,to match my Trophy 6.
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Old 18th Jan 2021, 10:11 pm   #5
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That writing on the dial looks like P5&I.

Could it refer to the 5 wavebands and the 0 to 100 indexing scale?
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Old 18th Jan 2021, 10:24 pm   #6
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Peto Scott Electrical Instruments.

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