Anyone recognise this 1962 Ultra radiogram please?

[David G4EBT]

The attached picture of an Ultra radiogram was taken on February 1962 on the first day back from our honeymoon - a weekend in London, having been married on Feb 24th, a month after my wife's 22nd birthday. (We'd bought the house - a 1938 semi - in October 1961, and spent the ensuing months sprucing it up).

It's so long ago that I can't recall if the 'gram was a generous wedding present, or if we bought it ourselves. We used the record player and the radio quite a lot as we didn't have a TV till 1965 - a dreadful dual-standard one with a turret tuner which needed cleaning with Dura-Glit every three months or so, and long slide switches on the circuit board with scores of contacts.

We moved house several times in quick succession - in late 1969 with a 4-yr old and 1-yr old son, from Nottingham to Spalding, then nine months later, from Spalding to Grimsby, in 1975 to Mansfield, then in 1977 to Sheffield. Finally to Cottingham, East Yorks in 1991. At some point, we must have jettisoned the gram, but when, and to whom, I've no idea.

[Cobaltblue]

Looks very similar to the 6302

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ultra_6302.html

Cheers

Mike T

[John10b]

Can’t help you with RG, but I do remember the Tuner contacts, I remember being told not to use any thing abrasive just a moist cloth, happy days.
John

[Edward Huggins]

Originally Posted by Cobaltblue

Looks very similar to the 6302

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ultra_6302.html

Cheers

Mike T

Very nice. A BSR UA16 autochanger and twin EL84 outputs. Probably sounded fine!

[David G4EBT]

Originally Posted by Cobaltblue

Looks very similar to the 6302

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ultra_6302.html

Cheers

Mike T

Thanks Mike, indeed it does.

I'm perplexed as to why we ever got rid of it - it wouldn't look out of place today.

[Nickthedentist]

What a lovely picture.

You've barely changed

[Mr 1936]

Hi

Sorry, can't yet help with a model number

1962 is in the middle of the valve/transistor changeover period, do you remember which it was ?

I'm sure someone on here will know the full details, but I seem to remember that there was Thorn and its subsidiary British radio Corporation (BRC) who had the brands Ultra, Marconiphone, Ferguson and HMV. Quite often two or three 'badge engineered' variants of the same model were sold, with only cosmetic differences.

A little unusual to have the knobs and scale not hidden away under a cover, but much more convenient. We had a Marconiphone that was quite similar, a transistor chassis and stereo record changer but only mono FM. You could buy a multiplex decoder and plug it into a DIN socket on the back of the chassis after snipping a couple of links. I remember making one which worked well but it was a complicated beast (Practical Wireless design) with Mullard pot cores that all had to be tweaked up.

[MIKEG4IIA]

Nice slippers!

[David G4EBT]

Originally Posted by MIKEG4IIA

Nice slippers!

I was waiting for that one!

They will doubtless have been a Christmas present, 1961, and no doubt I'd have felt obligated to wear them.

[dave walsh]

Nick's right, that's a great photo, at post 1 and the Radiogram looks good too.

Dave W

[mister valve]

I had a single standard (VHF 405 line) TV set with a "Fireball" Turret tuner fitted, and it was an absolute pain, as it would never stay on the channel !
You would select the channel you wanted, then sit down in your armchair - only to find the station had disappeared....

I don't remember what happened to the set, but it was probably given away or dumped.