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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 Bush Radio Ltd and therefore has U1 on the back. 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 is all original and has not been touched though the speaker material has been replaced at some later stage, the chassis is in first 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 as an aerial is required, comes complete with 12 month guarantee