G'Day Folks.
I seen a Remo on Ebay.
One of work colleagues picked it up from Tweed Heads for me.

The ARTS&P Licence Transfer has E on it.
But I still think it is 1937 as it doesn't have 4QR on the dial, and 4QR didn't start until 1938.
Although the dial made have been made in 1937 or early 1938 prior to 4QR starting.

I am finding it hard to find out much about the radio.
I know they were sold by Bennett & Wood, based in Sydney, unsure if they made them.
There isn't much to be found in Trove, and nothing in the AORSM.

It has push button preset tuning, haven't had a chance to do much with it at the moment.
Pictures soon.

Can anyone help with any info, maybe a circuit.
We have run out of room in the house, we have around five Music Masters consoles and a battery Philco console, plus the Remo and the AWA Eighty, these are the ones that can't fit into the storage room.
Mainly the ones Heather has Bought on Gumtree and local garage sales and the like, plus the TV collection that is growing.
Driving home from work, and she says we have drop into a house to pick something she bought, I end up carrying out a Philco to the car, KEWL!!!!

Waiting on council approval for the 18 x 7 meter shed, to house these and the workshop.
I think we have been bitten by the bug again....
And what's with people putting fish tanks into Television cabinets.???

I have a Battery Remo. I too have found very little info on them.

Ben

Never come across Remo myself. Let us know the valve line-up of that set and we'll see if that gives a clue to the manufacturer.

what's with people putting fish tanks into Television cabinets.???

Same question with people vandalising mantel sets into guitar practice amplifiers.

Thanks Brad for putting the pics up.
Thanks Redxm and GTC.
I will have a look at the valve line up on the weekend and post the findings, I did read somewhere, that the 1950's Remo's were using a Breville chassis?

The chassis from this radio & the one in Redxm's post appear to be from the same manufacturer.

https://vintage-radio.com.au/default.asp?f=1&th=857

I find it very unlikely that Bennett & Wood manufactured these chassis' themselves. Hopefully the valve-line up will help shed some light.

In 1938 Bennett & Wood were situated at the corner of Pitt & Bathurst St's, Sydney. They had branches in Parramatta, Wollongong, Newcastle, Goulburn, Lismore & Inverell.

^ I'd forgotten about Redxm's thread.

Different Valve line up to redxm's remo

5Y3G, 6F6G, 6B6G, 6U7G and EK2
will send Brad some more pic's to put up.
lot of surface rust on the outside of the chassis, inside is not as bad.
a tapped resistor, looks like it blew the end off at some stage after it and the cap next to it get a tad too warm.

Some console models with that line-up:

Beale (1938) 752
Beale (1938) 752A
Beale (1940) 481

Some mantel models:

Breville (1938) 106
Breville (1938) 107
Breville (1938) 108
Breville (1940) 222
Briton (1938) 30 30
Gulbransen (1940 150T

Different Valve line up to redxm's remo

Yes, Redxm's Remo is a battery set & the chassis has less depth to yours.

The point being is that both chassis' appear to have come from the same factory. Both chassis' have distinctive similarities such as the IF cans, the blue paint work and style of font printed on it. This is a very helpful clue knowing that Bennett & Wood maybe sourced both chassis' from the same place.

What we are trying to work out is which firm made these chassis'. That is why the valve line-up and lots of photos is very important. This is part of the exercise when dealing with the identification of generic home branded radio's such as the Remo.

Thanks to this Forum we have been able to identify & source schematics for a number of generic home branded radios using chassis' made by firms such as Eclipse, Zenith (Calstan), KGH (Titan), Breville, etc. With a bit of luck and some investigation we may even work out who made these Remo chassis'. Not only would this be helpful to both yourself & Redxm, but also for future reference.

Interesting how they had the stations ID's rather frequencies in those days

Dial scales started out with a simple round dial or a sliderule type, marked 0-100. This was followed by very elaborate 'all-states' dials with all known callsigns marked with the option on some up-market radios where capital city stations would be marked again on a separate backlit dial. The six-valve Kriesler Projectorgraphic was one such beast with this extra 'luxury'.

As mantel radios got smaller in the late 1940s there was not always room for an all-states dial and the callsigns of the state the radio was sold in were so marked though larger radios kept the all-states theme.

In the 1970s when the Commonwealth Government lowered the tariff wall that protected local manufacturers for around 45 years the market was flooded with imports that just had the 530 - 1700kHz frequency markings. Older people kept the habit of marking their favourite station's callsign on these modern dials so they knew where to tune to if someone tuned to another station.

Now with digital radio you get either the callsign for the tuned station or their business name, depending on the station. The traditional stations are there - 2CH, 2UE, 2GB and 2SM or you can tune to a station called Gorilla.

Photos uploaded.

Many thanks all..

The blue chassis, was that a very wide spread thing, (I see MARCC mentioned it was a common AWA colour) I am am fairly sure that in the collection of chassis I had maybe 30 - 35 years ago, there were maybe 3 or 4 of them the same blue colour.
I only had the chassis, no cabinets.

So Mono, I feel like I was just hit across the knuckles by the teacher, for not listening .. which is the best way to trace down the source of these Remo's and others ?? ( I have a few others, but one at a time)

I had a look at companies listed around Sydney, and found that Britons, were using that line up with the EK2 in 1936, but Breville didn't seem to use it until 1939, the EK2 was a Phillips valve and Britons became Philips Electrical Industries - Sydney in 1937...and had been building radios based on Phillips designs.

Am I heading in a positive direction or just assuming ?

Thanks for the list GTC

I know that Bennett & Wood were making the Speedwell cycle, so were in a position to maybe tool up do the metal work required for the chassis ???., and maybe Beale produced the cabinets, now I am speculating...

Trove searching produced some information and very interesting history about Bennett and Wood, but just a mention about the radios.
I sent the info to my work colleagues around the country as many of them are avid cyclist, and they though cycling was a new thing and didn't realise the cycling history that Australia has.

Many Thanks.

I feel like I was just hit across the knuckles by the teacher, for not listening

Sorry, that wasn't the intention.

I too have been looking into Sydney radio manufacturers from around the late 1930's. According to Mingays Radio Trade Annuals of 1937, 1938 & 1939 Bennett & Wood were distributors, but not manufacturers of radio.

Doing a bit of trawl in Google images found that Lekmek also had blue painted chassis'. The serial numbers & other letter fonts printed on the Lekmek's chassis' is the same or similar as both of the Remo sets featured in this forum.

There is really nothing to confirm if the Remo's used Lekmek chassis', but it is the closest I've yet seen so far.

The IF transformers are a clue. Not too many used those side adjusting ones. Font & layout of the dial is similar to an AWA "Big Brother" (R52)

Speaker looks MSP

Marc