I"ve been after one of these for a long time now, I would like one for my collection
Good or Bad condition concided
So if you have one or spot one please drop me a line
Thanks , Pete

I think it's a rare set nowadays.

There have been a couple of them discussed on here over the years, including this one that was for sale back in 2013:

https://vintage-radio.com.au/default.asp?f=3&th=455&offset=3

Hi G,
Some have come up over the last few years but I missed out on them. Ive always wanted one of these . They also had a 3 in 1 too.
There was a good one up for sale awhile back and some imbecile bought it ! Gutted it and turned it into a fish pond! Well you can imagine how I feel about that and vintage Television sets.
Pete

turned it into a fish pond!

Member Sue here saved one from that very fate.

I hope one turns up for you. I guess you just need to keep on checking the usual places.

See TV Collectors post:

https://vintage-radio.com.au/default.asp?f=10&th=3&offset=2

First sold in 1963 for £229/19/-. The Radiogram version went for the princely sum of £324/9/-.

If either of these models did turn up there would be some fierce competition!!

They are not that Rare I have televisions in collection far rarer than an Astor Plymouth.
About 3 months ago one sold on ebay in non working condition , but excellent cosmetic condition and it sold for $200, but I missed out on than one because I was no where near a computer. Then after that a nice 3 in 1 came up but it was in Hobart and it sold for $100 and was tuned into a fish tank.
That one was on Gumtree
Pete

This is my Thorn Atlas 1963
This is one of those sets you never see. It took me a few months to find this very good one.There is a later model of these that is not as good and has differant knobs.
But this is the early model

That Thorn Atlas 2209J is one really cool looking TV!

When I was at High School one of my mates had one in his bedroom. This was once the family set, but a new colour TV made it redundant.

The 2209J was first released in 1961 and was sold through to 1964. The factory that made these TV's was in West Heidelberg, Melbourne.

Monochrome,
Yes mate their pretty cool and rare, its one of my favourites , funny thing was I was running ads and putting the word out that I want one, anyway it turned up at a Garage sale and anther collector mate phoned me ,,,so I get to the garage sale and this young guy is running the show, I asked how much for this old broken tellie mate??? Ohhhh $15 !,,
Made my day !

In the magazine Ad for the Plymouth, picture tube has what British called "Press-through-presentation" ( Advantage: made pict look bigger, Disadvantage: caused magnified raster lines around edges.)

In the Ad, they misspell 'complements'.

In the Ad, they misspell 'complements'.

A common misspelling. Proof reading is a lost art, and more so now than ever.

And even a modern spellchecker wouldn't help them because it depends on context - a difficult information-processing challenge, but possible today I dare say with 'machine-learning' AI that could auto scan vast archives and "teach itself" the correct usage by trial & error algorithms to "know" which word is appropriate as typist builds context

NEW VISTA,
Hi, I don't know that regarding press through presentation. .
I have heard this model is not so go though, but I do like the look of it.As for the spelling ,Well ,,Hey I'm the worlds worst and I'm long over it ,
All the best Pete

NEWVISTA (Nuvistor?)

Yes, here it was called "push-through presentation" The 23" Pye T20 I grew up with had it.

Pete, the finish on that Pye cabinet was absolutely flawless.

I've spoken of this before but the speaker, first time I looked, was a shock. In a console cabinet that deserved an 8 inch speaker, there was this crappy little 4 inch Magnavox that Pye seemed to use in everything at the time, stuck in the middle of a huge baffle! It didn't sound as bad as it looked, though, I can remember my sister turning it up on a live Beatles concert!

Sound was the poor relation on some models in those days. The T20, like the T21, audio consisted of half a 6DX8, FM courtesy of a 6DT6.

Picture quality was good though. I recall examining the Marconi resolution chart transmitted by Ch 9 in the mornings and the video didn't roll off until beyond the 5MHz mark. Pretty much perfect geometry too.

a modern spellchecker wouldn't help them because it depends on context - a difficult information-processing challenge, but possible today I dare say with 'machine-learning'

That's right and context is very difficult to ascertain by machine. Witness the silly suggestions that Word's grammar checker often comes up with.

Proof reading today is at its nadir. Newspaper publishers have done away with sub-editors and it sure shows. In the absence of sub-editors, I'd insist that each journalist pass their articles by a colleague before pressing the submit button.

I'm reading a recently-published book at the moment and the number of typos is lamentable. Authors used to be able to blame typesetters for such typos, but that excuse died decades ago.