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Description: | REGD No 735609 (gold stencil on top of the box. 558- 1900 (scales on two tuning dials on the side of the set giving the wavelength in meters). 5887 stamped on the inside of the box.. Various leads have their terminals marked and there is a plastic plate giving details of the the Marconi patent restrictions. There is also a paper label stuck to the back of the access panel which states " This Pye Radio receiver, SERIAL No. C19243 is Manufactured under Limited License ......... PYE RADIO LTD CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND" MANU Pye Radio Limited 1927 Granta Works, Mill Lane, Cambridge, England. This is a Pye model 25 "portable" battery powered domestic radio receiver. The log book (now mising) for the battery was reputedly made up by John Logie Baird. The set has a five valve amplifier. The art decco sunburst motif of the pierced panel covering the speaker was reputedly taken from the silver cigarette case of a company director. It remained the company logo until after the second world war, when public protest over the similarity to the Japanese national emblem caused its demise. An entire production run of the model M78F was incinerated. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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