VT 0517 1940S AC WARTIME CIVILAIN RECEIVER RADIO

VT 0517 1940S AC WARTIME CIVILAIN RECEIVER RADIOA set built during the materials shortages of World War 2. The Government initiated a plan for a receiver simple reciever of a single standard design in 1943, the design itself being undertaken by Dr. G. D. Reynolds of Murphy Radio Ltd. During the War there was a dire shortage of new receivers so despite the basic nature of this set it was eagerly snapped up by the public with over 175,000 of the mains sets being sold in the first year. Both the price

A set built during the materials shortages of World War 2. The Government initiated a plan for a receiver simple reciever of a single standard design in 1943, the design itself being undertaken by Dr. G. D. Reynolds of Murphy Radio Ltd. During the War there was a dire shortage of new receivers so despite the basic nature of this set it was eagerly snapped up by the public with over 175,000 of the mains sets being sold in the first year.Both the price and conditions of supply were rigidly set by the Wireless Receiving Sets (Control of Supply) order, which had come in to operation of the 1st July 1944. This specifically applied to the Civilian Receiver and the order was not revoked until July 1947, so presumably the sets were still in production at that time ?Since the L.W. broadcasts were suspended during the war this set has only the medium wave. The scale is very simple with a simple scale in meters plus markings for the "Home" and "Forces" stations - no foreign stations here ! After the war, various enterprising companies did offer a modification to add L.W., though fortunately this set has escaped such hacking. However the set continued to be produced after the war with manufacturer-added L.W. waveband. This example was aquired many years ago for our WW2 display and is in non working order, howere we did ask a vintage radio repairer who said this could easily be put back into service. A great talking peice!