Cossor/Philips CR1350T/00

[Heatercathodeshort]

Whilst checking a box of transistor radios that were pulled off the tip years ago I came across this interesting Cossor CR1350T/00.
It is tiny. LW,MW and full coverage of FM 87.5-108mc/s.
It appears to be West German manufacture and wondered if it had been sold in the UK especially as it appears to have been manufactured around 1963 with full FM coverage.
It 'works' just about, with very low volume and incorporates what look like AF117 transistors in the RF sections.
I have no intentions of repairing it as it is original and to be honest don't need the faff!
It's a very good example of excellent engineering. John.
PS the rice pudding is only 22P a can and is yummy. I'm not a labels man..

[Paul_RK]

I expect it would have been marketed here, as at the time were quite a few Philips portables of West German or Dutch origin alongside the Croydon products. I have - at least I think I still have it somewhere - a set that's pretty much identical except for being branded as Philips.

Paul

[Restoration73]

I have come across a few sets from Europe brought into the UK by returning UK Forces
families. The reason - in many European countries the BFBS programmes were only
radiated on FM, although the US Forces used AM for AFN/AFRTS which we could hear
in the UK.
Your set looks rather better than the Roberts R700 I'm currently restoring.

[Cobaltblue]

It was certainly for the UK market with the Cossor branding which of course was owned by Philips after 1958.

All of the Cossor equipment with a model number starting CR or CT was Philips.

Cheers

Mike T

[Paul_RK]

Here's my L2X28T/03 - slightly different tuning scale and what's left of a Made in Holland label on top, and the Civil Defense frequencies clearly marked. Now that I think of it Swedish and Finnish Philips models from around the same time that were probably marketed here come to mind too.

[Heatercathodeshort]

Interesting! The 4X pencells [HP7/AA] must have had a short life on FM. Thanks for the info. Time goes very fast but it must be 25 years ago that it turned up on the tip. It's very clean. John.

[G.Castle]

Interesting to note the now unusual IF frequency 6.7MHz for FM, possible image response problems ?

[FERNSEH]

A similar Philips transistor radio, model L2D22T/03 marketed under the name "Nicolette".
The prefix WA before the serial number might indicate the manufacturing site.
Identical to the Cossor CR1350T/00?

DFWB.

[Heatercathodeshort]

They certainly manufactured a large number of these in different countries. This version David was made in West Germany. John.