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The Roberts R77 was the first of the Roberts radios to use a PCB and the binocular style coach-hide leather carring case would blend into the middle conservative market it was intended for. The release date was May 1957 and marketed at £13 4s 7d, within a couple of years due to inflation the price had risen by over 30% £18 17s 0d. The radio offeres MW and LW reception and employs a ferrite rod internal aerial. 4 valves are used and runs from B126 90 Volt HT battery and AD35 1.5 Volt battery's are supplied ready to go. The sensitivity and volume are excellent, and condition again is very good with little wear, the top Ivory colour tuning plate and on/off and tuning knobs are perfect with no wear.

These radio's are very sought after and good examples are getting hard to locate and i'm sure from memory that the design and prototype was first shown to the Queen back in 1956, and hence the design appealing to the sportsman and countrymen . Comes complete with batteries and 1 years gurantee

A very interesting radio for the collector, a fine example of quite a rare radio with everything still present, including the original box with all its packing plus the gurantee card, user manual ,and  service manual that was presented with it to the one owner who was giving this as a birthday present in 1958 when just 16yrs of age.

Hence the condition. The radio is a conventional MW and LW band offering 300mw from a 7" x 4" elliptical loud speaker. There is an internal Ferrite rod aerial, plus an external plug if needed. interesting is the stations are printed on the perpex handle and the tuning dial is in the standard metres. The radio only required a couple of component changes and works as good as the day it first  left the factory. It runs from 6 U11 1.5 batterys supplied and full 1 years warranty.

In my opinion the rarer of the two models availble in this series in imitation crocodile leather. The models were first introduced in 1953 with the popular coronation twin (R876) named of course due to the coronation of queen Elisabeth 11 and it seems that these models were introduced a year or so later, in fact this one is date stamped at 7th June 1955 with serial number 1598 this should help to time line any other ones in collections. The radio is mains or battery with an I.F of 471 Kc/s , why 1 Kc/s off the normal is interesting, that aside this  is a standard medium wave and Long wave receiver which has had a lot of replacement parts fitted with a total re-alignment and RF factory set undertaken to ensure it works as good as the day the first proud owner used it. I often wonder who these people were and wonder if the two types were issued as this one for the gentleman and the snake skin version for the lady of the house, either way it would have fitted well into the middle class house hold with that contempary style.

The radio comes complete with 1 years guarantee and original mains lead.

Condition is very good

Populary known as the Utility set and  was designed by Dr G.D.Reynolds of Murphy Radio Ltd. It was an effective but basic single waveband (MW) receiver. The design resulted to minimise raw materials and labour and was manufactured by over 40 different companys, identified only by a U followed by a number on the back. This radio was built by Murphy Radio Ltd and therefore has U7. Even the valves were given special codes just to make it interesting !. During the first twelve months from June 1944 over 175,000 of these sets were produced to eradicate the shortage of wireless sets at the time and costing £12 3s 4d including purchase tax were still costly.

So if you would like to by into a little of our second world war history, this is the one for you, the case made out of pine finish stamped GRL 1944 is all original and has not been touched, the chassis is in fine class condition with the IF's realigned and to remind you the on/off switch was fitted to the rear of the set. Surprisingly the idea of design was to keep materials down so to help the war effort so why use a large AC mains transformer rather than a basic AC/DC concept, perhaps we will never know. Small in size at only 12 inches wide, 6.5 inches in depth and 13.5 inches high, and of course to use this an external wire (supplied) as an aerial is required, comes complete with 6 month guarantee which is the same when offered new. Long wave broadcasting resumed on July 29th 1945 with the BBC's new light programme on 1500 metres. So a set just over a year old was unable to be used on this popular program , it was not until November that year that a commercially made adabtor became available, by then service engineers were inundated by requests for made-up ones, so a quantity of these sets were up-graded by your local service/sales shop. This is one of them hence the xtra switch in the middle, easy to spot as the standard kit costing £2 2s 0d also had the Longwave tuning dial plate added, this does not so I can assume this was converted before November.