I started looking, but it's a very time consuming task. However I've had this site bookmarked for some time. It has over 8,000 different radios, your's might be one of them.

http://radioatticarchives.com/archive.htm?page=g1

Rudy

Thanks Rudy - Don't worry about looking for that radio, it's probably a very uncommon one, and so there's probably not much on it. I'm mainly just looking for techniques you could use to read valve numbers that have eroded alot, or are very faint.

Interesting link - Thanks

A lot of radios didn't have a brand and this may well be one of them. It uses a chassis similar to a chassis I have which is out of a Little General, a kit radio described by John Moyle in Radio and Hobbies in the 1940s although Little Generals were AC-only as far as I know, so there'd be no similarity with valves.

This may be one of those nameless radios that were sold en-mass by department stores. Not many of the big brands contained components made by RCS Radio as they generally made their own components.

Hi Brad

As I was flicking throungh my August 15, 1944 edition of 'Australian Radio World' I found a full-page advertisement for RCS radio!

It's fascinating that all the adverts in the book have themes like 'We're making complex scientific advances now, so after the war you can have great-quality radios from us'

RCS Radio have a classified ad in Silicon Chip each month though it is nothing as grandiose as what you described. It might be a sign of the times or just because they participate only in a niche market now.

On the positive side though, to be around for as long as they have, especially as an Australian-owned manufacturer, they are doing well.

Recent Update:
1. The rectifier is a 'Tungar' style rectifier, that you can see similar ones of on Google.
2. The strange piece of brass and bakelite is a heat switch, where the coil expands and contracts, making the connections either connect or disconnect. You can adjust it quite eaisaly, to make it sensitive or not.

One method of identifying valves with the numbers rubbed off is to put the valve in the freezer for a few minutes, take it out and breath on it. With any luck the numbers will be seen in the condensation pattern.
The numbers can be very fragile - avoid cleaning the unidentified valve.

Unlikely to see the R49 in a radio. These were either Argon (gas filled) or Mercury rectifiers used in battery charging.

Really need some idea of the Radio Chassis manufacturer.

The capless GT valve, & an 8K primary on the speaker transformer it may be well be a Beam Pentode 1Q5-GT if that the output valve?

Try the freeezer trick of bright sunlight (angle specific), later is good for top labled Philips tubes like A615.

Standard Octal pinouts.
Pin 2 F+ 1.4V 100mA
Pin 3 Anode 90V
Pin 4 Screen
Pin 5 Control Grid (-4.5) Possibly "C" Battery or back biased?
Pin 7 F (-) & Supressor.

Marc