110
Item nr.
Bakelite turn of the century.
| Production | The Netherlands, 1950.
Price was 145 guilders. |
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| Bands | LW MW SW. |
| Tubes | UCH42 UF41 UBC41 UL41 UY41. |
| Cabinet | Bakelite. Size 27x17x13 cm. Weight 2.6 kg. |
| Power | ACDC 110/220V 48W. |
| Documents | Schema. |
The radio is a fire hazard as well. The dropping resistor, output tube, and rectifiers together produce some 25W of heat and are packed together in a very small space, separated from the rest of the radio by metal shielding. Put your hand on the set above this hot corner and you'll know what I mean. Do not expect wires here to have still visible insulation on them, it is all blackened and crumbled after 50 years!The same type was available in various colors, see this other one.Here is a picture from a Philips advertisement flyer of 1950, showing the radio in gray.The price quoted in the flyer is 160 guilders. The flyers advocates the very good sound quality of the set. Indeed, the sound can be considered quite good compared to many other radios of that era and that size.
| Obtained | 9/1998 from The Krijnen collection. |
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| Condition | 8. |
| Disposed | Sold 5/2010. |
| Sound sample | PLAY SOUND Lola by the Kinks was one of my favorite pop songs in the eighties (when it was already an oldie, being issued in 1970). Like the books by Willy van der Heide, the first version of the song had Coca Cola in the text, but BBC didn't want to go commercial and requested the change to cherry C-O-L-A. |