I have it ready to go if Harold gives the nod.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

No problems, please go ahead.
Harold

Doneskies.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

I removed the "cabinet" today and found a label on the inside of the radio chassis. It is pictured here. It seems the build date is May 20 1936 or possibly 1938. I do not know what all the other info is about.

I own the Beale pictured in the previous page. It was on display at the HRSA 25th anniversary when that picture was taken. It has an ArtsnP "c" for 1936 and is a hot chassis. I also have the same Beale as pictured above but with a yellow celluloid dial. Both are "Panchromatic" having their "tone chambers" over the Amplion speaker.

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"But honey, heaps of collectors have more than 14 consoles in their bedrooms too, what's the big deal?

Are Beale radios hard to come by, I mean very collectable?

Beale normally made pianos but made radios for a short time as a bit of side action. As Beale was technically a cabinet maker rather than an electronics firm, the cabinets were normally very well made and well finished. If you find a Beale radio and want to start a collection, it's not a bad place to start.

They are not commonplace. My guess is that 1 in 400 radios may be a Beale. Their most popular radio was a small mantel model called the Peewee.but again, not made in the numbers that an AWA Radiola or Astor Mickey would have been made in.

They are very collectable, though it depends on the collector. Some collect timber radios, others will only collect bakelite radios. I collect both.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

As for collectability, in my experience watching HRSA auctions over the years, not a lot of collectors these days are interested in console radios, regardless of brand.

Hi Dave, yes it is possible to knock up a fair looking cabinet using stuff from Bunnings and left over bits of timber.
Your "re-build" could be very similar to my Tasma "rat radio" where I used the chassis of the Tasma and built a cabinet.
I am no wood worker but just go ahead and do things.

Go to "special projects" on this site and scroll down to "Tasma 305" and open up the document.
Scroll down past all the radio mumbo jumbo and take a look at how I approached the build of the cabinet.
I used scraps of flat for the frame, Bunnings ply for the sheet areas, skirting boards for the sides and quad pieces.
The speaker grille used tomato stakes and some dress material I pinched from Barbara.

I am clueless on joining wood so just glued it and screwed it until it stood upright and did not wobble!
It cant have been too bad as it wound up in Silicon Chip as a Vintage article.

Possibly you could do something similar?
That set looks like a good project to me, what could go wrong?!!!!!

Fred.