I have a beautiful Cabinet for the Raycophone Console model 263AE. These cabinets are beautiful and very well made, I think it was made by Beale and I would love to get a chassis for it, as long it is orginal and the IF coils and power transformer are OK I do not care about its condition otherwise. It was quite unique for a 1933 radio as it had 2 Electrodynamic speakers in the cabinet. I will send a picture of the cabinet to Brad.
The valve lineup is 58, 2A7, 58, 2B7,2A5 & 80. Any other information anyone out there has on this chassis would be helpful.

If anyone out there can help me find this chassis or point me in the direction of someone who might know where I can get my hands on one I would be grateful.

The cabinet's woodwork is indeed beautiful. According to Radiomuseum, in 1933 it retailed for £38.00 which is $4,720 in today's money, so definitely an item for the well-heeled.

Several years ago I serviced a, believed to be one off variant (possibly Golden Handshake) AWA set based on an R301. The parts list for the R301 confirmed its existence by having the caps and resistors for both listed. There were major circuit differences (e.g. Elimination of back bias)and the only set I have seen with the first IF being a bandpass filter.

It would have had a heavier power transformer as it has the production model output transformer replaced with a Push Pull driver transformer feeding a 6A6 (6N7 data) double triode, which would put ten watts into its "Electrodynamic" Woofer & Tweeter: Incredible.

I have a Raycophone console, and their Peewee. Both are built like tanks. Raycophone didn't go the distance but attention to detail was definitely in hand. They aren't exactly commonplace but one never knows their luck in this game.

Hi Brad, when you say your Raycophone Console "didn't go the distance" Do you mean yours stopped working or your though Raycophone didn't gp the distance with their design?
Do you still have yours? What model console did you have?

Do think a little more clarification. I did service one and may have the detail of it. From memory it was a horror story of bad design. I do have recollection of the volume control being tied up in the RF section, which was madness & made for large scale instability.

Rodney Champness & I were as one with this horror and felt Raycophone, perhaps should have concentrated on audio equipment.

Hi Brad, when you say your Raycophone Console "didn't go the distance" Do you mean...

As a radio manufacturer. Raycophone went from 1929 to 1935 making radios and from that point specialised in equipment for picture theatres. By 1950, they were wound up.

I still have both the console and the mantel models - both are true collector's pieces, as is yours. However they are not restored as far as I know.