Is there a link for Schematic of 1959/60 BUSH-Simpson 'Bushmatic' (four-button-tuner) TV?
I'd like to analyse this design.

Hi.
I have several service manuals for this make as well as training notes and advertising.

If you send me an email, I will be able to send you some photos etc.

Wayne.

Thanks, email unlocked

Received items/advertising graphics, very interesting, thanks.

Back in England, BUSH was considered "The Rolls Royce of television"
This exclusivity can be seen in their Australian models as well:
For instance the video amplifier (6BL8) has daring DC-coupling to its Cathode-follower!
Reminds me of the famous innovative 1940's Williamson wide-band audio amplifiers!

Bush Simpson were one of the many TV makers that did not survive the 1960 credit squeeze.
So many failed because of the combination of:

1. End of the main city TV boom resulting in poor sales
2. Prolonged drought depressing sales in regional areas when TV extended there (the 2nd sales boom didn't happen.).
3. Tight cashflow
4. Inability to borrow money - both buyers and sellers.
5. Insolvency and failure of a major retailer - HG Palmer.

I used to have one of these sets (in very poor condition) in the garage, it went to landfill I'm sorry to say.

Simpson continued on for many years making whitegoods.

The 6BL8 based video circuit was a Philips application design note and was used by several TV makers at the time. You'll also see it in some early Pyes and Astors, but strangely not Philips! The technique was revisited much later in the Australian Philips KT3 / KL9 colour chassis using transistors. It makes a lot of sense.

Good summary of the impact of the early-60s recession on Aust television (a contagion of US recession at that time.)
I see from the advertising literature I just received that they were getting 200-quid for Bushmatics pre recession, speaking well of Aussie purchasing power, whereas in tough post-war England people would typically rent their televisions - especially premium BUSH.

In its literature, the Bushmatic boasted 37 tube+diode design, beating out other Aussie TVs. I was discussing this with an erudite English immigrant in a TV shop in the late 60s and it was he who revealed "[back in England] Bush are the Rolls Royce of television"