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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 1:05:41 PM on 19 April 2009.
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 Phil Storr
 Location: SA
 Member since 30 April 2006
 Member #: 39
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G'day folks
I have just returned from holiday with a radio that has me puzzled.

There is nothing to identify it on the front or the back except for small tag with rear indicating it is MODEL No 471 and Serial number 547363.
Inside there is a plate with an HMV Logo,transformer tap connections,valve line up and the usual warnings about disconnecting before servicing.
This plate also indicates it was made by: The Gramophone Company Limited, Hayes, Middlesex, England.
Also on the chassis is an Australian ARTS&P label that indictes it was sold in Australia about 1937.

Nice very large table top cabinet with in-laid wood on the front.
Three band with and RF stage. By the chart indicating how to configure the transformer for 12 supply voltages from 95 volt to 260 my guess it was a fancy receiver made for sales in the colonies. I know such sets were to be found in India but I did not know they arrived DownUnder.
Does anyone have any information on this set ?
 
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 Brad
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 Location: Naremburn, NSW
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G'day Phil,

Good to see you back! If you have a picture of the set you can e-mail it to Brad.mail.vintage-radio.com.au and I will add it to your post. This would help with identification of the set.

I am not sure when HMV built their factory in Homebush, NSW so I am not sure when they started building receivers here though this set could have been built before that date.


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 Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 9:33:32 PM on 22 April 2009.
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 Phil Storr
 Location: SA
 Member since 30 April 2006
 Member #: 39
 Postcount: 33

Here are some photos:

HMV 471

HMV 471

HMV 471

HMV 471


I have put some more photos on my web site tonight:
http://www.philipstorr.id.au/radio/.
 
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