01-04-2013, 10:14 PM
Ron;
I may be wrong but it looks like they used the dial from a Philco 60 on that British Philco model 261. On the 60 I have the upper end of the broadcast band drops off at about 1500 KC and continues on at 1.5 MC on the police band. It looks like they reused the Police band notations but had 1.5 MC represent 150 KC, why they left the decimals in makes no sense to me. My only guess is that Philco maybe didn't think the British market was large enough to justify spending money making screens for a new dial, everything else on this set, aside from the power transformer and long wave parts, looks like it came standard from the Philco parts bin.
With regard to the tombstone version of this radio, the one with a Canadian Philco 3118 style cabinet, that looks identical to the set I saw on one of "The Empty Child" episodes of Doctor Who, it had the same escutcheon. However I think they may have also had a 6 tube chassis used in the same cabinet so we will likely never know for sure which model it was, it only caught my eye due to the cabinet's resemblance to my Philco 3118.
Regards
Arran
I may be wrong but it looks like they used the dial from a Philco 60 on that British Philco model 261. On the 60 I have the upper end of the broadcast band drops off at about 1500 KC and continues on at 1.5 MC on the police band. It looks like they reused the Police band notations but had 1.5 MC represent 150 KC, why they left the decimals in makes no sense to me. My only guess is that Philco maybe didn't think the British market was large enough to justify spending money making screens for a new dial, everything else on this set, aside from the power transformer and long wave parts, looks like it came standard from the Philco parts bin.
With regard to the tombstone version of this radio, the one with a Canadian Philco 3118 style cabinet, that looks identical to the set I saw on one of "The Empty Child" episodes of Doctor Who, it had the same escutcheon. However I think they may have also had a 6 tube chassis used in the same cabinet so we will likely never know for sure which model it was, it only caught my eye due to the cabinet's resemblance to my Philco 3118.
Regards
Arran
