Oak cabinet with ebonite front
and knobs. For medium wave and long wave.
Probably made by Ward &
Goldstone Ltd., Pendleton, Manchester.
Gamage also sold a one valve and a two valve
set, in an almost identical cabinet. The antenna coil had to be rewound. The
volume control knob operates a thin metal plate that
is situated between the antenna coil and the
feedback coil.
Listen to "I've
never seen a straight banana" by the orchestra of
Stan Greening,
sung by Maurice Elwin, recorded on November 25,
1926
Back
Binding posts for the
loudspeaker, phones, batteries, aerial and earth.
Inside
Left the detector;
in the middle and on the right two lf tubes.
In the middle the antenna coil;
behind it the feedback coil. Between both coils a thin metal
plate is visible. This metal plate can be turned left
and right and acts as volume control. Left
and right two lf
transformers (1:5 and 1:3).
Text on the inside of the lid.
A large number of these radios were
offered to the wholesale market in this advertisement of
Arthur G. Herod & Co.in The Wireless and
Gramophone Trader of June 14, 1930.
Despite the text "modern wireless sets",
it does not appear that this advertisement related to a
recently manufactured type of radio.The appearance and technical design are
rather old-fashioned for a radio that was offered in
1930.
In this period the demand turned
rather quickly to receivers with
mains power ("All-Electric"
radios).
The price is very low, taking into
account that - in case of the three-valve radio - the
price of the tubes was 25/6.
A random (brand) name could be placed in
a rectangular area at the bottom left of the front.
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