I recently aquired a Crosley radio model C45.
It has an Australian stations dial & a valve compliment of 5y3g 6f6g 6b6g 6u7g 6g8g. No arts & p to be seen so I'm guessing its about a 1946-47 model.

Would anyone have any info on these Australian Crosleys or a schematic. it dosent appear to have been played with so thats a good start.

Cheers Rob.

There is no info on Crosley radio, not in the AORSM's or the HRSA model/make lists. However, I did find this in Trove. It seems that they started appearing around 1947. Would this be your radio?

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticlePdf/83749421/3?print=n

Hi Monochrome
No thats not it,thanks for looking that up tho.
I will post some pics once I work out how to do so.
Cheers.

Send the pics to Brad and he'll upload them to your post.

The only Crosley I've ever seen is like the one on the Trove link. I don't know if it the same company, but around the same time there were also Crosley Refrigerators on the market here. Crosley was a fairly common brand in the US, but not sure if there is any connection with the Australian version.

Cheers.

More often than not the parent company either set up a local factory here and ran it autonomously or just rented out the brand name. Brands like Kelvinator, Westinghouse, Admiral, Philco, Hallstrom, Carmichael, Fridgidaire and Stromberg Carlson come to mind.

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Photos uploaded.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

This Crosley looks like it was made by Stromberg Carlson. It has Strommy knobs & has the tell-tail Strommy stencilled lettering on the chassis. One thing that is a bit odd is that is uses a 6F6G (pentode) for the output. The 6F6G, of course, is the octal equivalent of the 42. The 6F6G had largely disappeared in Australian radios by 1940 in favour of the 6V6 (beam-tetrode). Also, I can't locate any Stromberg Carlsons with that valve line-up. Maybe it is a oddball! But at least we might have a clue to its origins. Perhaps someone else here might have some other ideas.

Cheers.

Thats what I thought when I found it that it had a Stromberg vibe to it. The 6f6 may have been a case of use up all the old stock at the factory.
Im sure I've seen this cabinet before, on the net somewhere. The speaker grille and dial surround are a separate peice.
Thanks for uploading Brad.

I just found this on the Radiomueseum site regarding Australian Stromberg Carlson:-

"Stromberg Carlson made receivers and components both for their own receivers and sets made by other companies. Brands included their own plus Audiola and Crosley."

That looks like a pretty radio, once you fix up the grill cloth. Anyway, its schematic likely doesn't deviate from other radios using similar tubes. And if you replace the caps one at a time, and check the resistors, it may come to life. Looks like it spent time in a humid environment, with the rust I see. But as the dial markings look good, it wasn't in a flood (the inks they used back then on glass were water solvent).