• Year
  • 1929 ?
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 364449

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 5
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • TRF without regeneration
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries
  • Loudspeaker
  • -Loudspeaker incorporated, but system not known.
  • Material
  • Leather / canvas / plastic - over other material
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Peerless Portable 5 - Peerless Brand, Bedford
  • Shape
  • Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)
  • Notes
  • There are so many makes to choose from these days that the question of choice is no easy matter. But several outstanding features in the Peerless Portable Five place it easily at the head of the great portable "army." It's one tuning control makes operation effortless and simplicity itself. Given average conditions, you can receive at full loudspeaker strength.

    And the Speaker, a Cone Model giving you volume and purity of tone with amazing fidelity. Absolutely self-contained with unspillable accumulator, the PEERLESS Portable Five is obtainable in solid hide or rexine travelling case. When you have seen and heard it you will agree with us when we say that you could ask for no more in a portable.

    Rexine-covered case model, 15 gns
    Solid hide-covered model, 16 gns.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 16.75 GB £
  • Author
  • Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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