I used to have a old Kriesler set, here are a few pictures : what do you guys think ?.

Tweeter, squawker and woofer. Doubt there is a telly made now that provides the full audio range inside the box now - at any price. Pushbutton tuning too. Did this set come with a remote control? I am sure some Krieslers did.

I think that is a Magnavox 6WR, (Wide Range 6" with whizzer cone) and a Magnavox 10". There was another Kriesler that had three Magnavox 10" at bottom, one with WR whizzer, these actually made some deep bass sounds.

That's one nice looking set!

Id love to have one like that for my small collection.

I actually have the wired remote control for a set I think like that one, its definitely branded Kriesler.

Some of my favourite radios and TVs are from around that era where innovations like motor drive tuning and magic eyes were popular.

One of Kriesler's top of the range sets. Very well made and excellent performance.

If I ever buy a Kriesler, it will be one like this, with the "computer" channel display. Electro-mechanical gimmickry at its finest!

I had one of those once - a fine machine, with remote control and motorised channel change. Its a pity that feature is not usable now , however one connects the old TV to a digital signal!

A nice set. The picture of the set from the rear, shows that one could select their choice of one of up to three different antennas.

Useful in areas like Ballarat. Before Aggregation, in Ballarat, one antenna pointed to Ballarat, one pointed to Bendigo, and one pointed to Melbourne.

Also, there are programming selectors, on the back of the tuner/motor assembly, used to set at which channels the tuner will stop, and at which ones the tuner will motor past.

The Gramophone style induction motor free-wheels in the stop mode and the rotor moves forward when spinning to engage the drive gears.

An odd fault that I had with one of these set in the 1970's was that the set had no picture, no raster.
I found that one of the contacts on the tuner was bent causing the picture mute function to remain on.

Aggregation. Now there's another story. I shall leave it up to others for now to relate their experiences of that time.

Wayne.

I forgot to mention. Plastic castors on a 1960's TV. I don't think so.

Any castors would have been gold coloured metal ones. They would sometimes be damaged, bent, giving the "square wheel" effect.

Wayne.

I had one of those once - a fine machine, with remote control and motorised channel change. Its a pity that feature is not usable now , however one connects the old TV to a digital signal!

It would use some power and take a bit of setting up (and probably cost a few bob too) but for a realistic usage of an old telly you could set up a mini MATV system with a bank of tuners and modulators to feed signals to an old telly on the correct channels.

Early 60s Astor TVs came equipped with single wheeled black plastic castors, and these broke very easily. I've changed the castors on my Plymouth to the stronger diecast type because there were only two of the plastic ones still intact.