Hi guys just wondering if anyone has any info on these radios cheers I will upload piks soon essanay console radio and blue bird radio

I have references to about 41 Essanay console models between 1932 and 1937.

Nothing on Bluebird at first glance.

Awesome I will upload piks tonight also when I look up blue bird sparton keeps coming up so not sure

Would be an idea to also list the valves. Some sets like AGE, Hotpoint, Kelvinator, Airzone & many others were badge engineered and not neccesarily made by those whose name appears on them.

Marc

Here are some piks of the essanay and the chassis also the chassis for the blue bird the cabinet is being looked at by a friend to see if he can restore it

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg83/blingbling_2008/IMG_20111205_211944.jpg

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg83/blingbling_2008/IMG_20111205_204151.jpg

and the chassis also the chassis for the blue bird

? I see only one chassis.

As per Marc's post, if you are seeking schematics let us know the valve line-ups for each chassis.

The valves in the only chassis seen (AWA blue) has Philips valves in it and they will have numbers on the metalisation of the gold ones eg ABC1. AK2

The IFs suggest possibly early Autodyne and they are top trimmer IF's not ferrite slugs.

Tasma used a lot of Philips valves

Marc

Its hard because most of them have been wiped but I will try and piks for blue bird below

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg83/blingbling_2008/IMG_20111205_212006.jpg

The valves for the essanay
80,e463,5444n,af2,ak1, and numbers 94234 and B on label hope this helps

and blue bird 80,42,sb7,6d6

The Bluebird was made by Bebarfald Ltd of Sydney, who's main line of business was Vicars & Bluebird sewing machines.
As soon as I read "Bluebird" I had a feeling it was the sewing machine company,(Im currently restoring a 1929 Bluebird sewing machine), and a quick search on the Trove newspaper archives for Bluebird radio confirmed it.
I only found 2 short articles mentioning the radios, one from 1934 & the other from 1938.
The 1938 article is titled "Miscellaneous Exhibits", and the text reads as follows-

BEBARFALD'S LTD.
Included in its own pavilion at 101 Clydes dale Avenue, amongst a varied display of goods and on a stand in the Hordern Pavilion, Bebarfald's Ltd. has made a special feature of the "Bluebird" sewing machine. They are present in many types and sizes, and include a number of electrically driven models. The company also has a wide variety of "Bluebird" radio receivers at reasonable prices. One of those is a five-valve dual wave model In polished walnut which Includes on each side of the receiver a bookca.se. Another is a portable set which is entirely self-contained, even to aerial.

Obviously Bebarfald's decided to jump on the radio bandwagon like so many other non-radio manufacturing companies in the early 30s, buying in chassis' and building the cabinets with their own name slapped on it.
I guess the chassis could have been made by any of a number of manufacturers, but I cant help but wonder if perhaps Emmco might have been their supplier, as Emmco seems to have supplied chassis' to a lot of "off-brand" radio manufacturers.

Thanks for the info new2radio here is a pik of it

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg83/blingbling_2008/radios%201/PC070349.jpg.