• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Ferranti, GB

• Year
• 1955

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 321732

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• DK96 DF96 DAF96 DAF96 DL96 DL96

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 470 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.

• Power type and voltage
• Line / Batteries (any type) / 200-250 / 90 & 1.5 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 6.5 inch = 16.5 cm

• Material
• Leather / canvas / plastic - over other material

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 955 - Ferranti, GB

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Notes

• A portable mains/battery 6 valve radio covering MW (187-570kHz) and LW (1100-1900kHz) housed in a rexine covered wooden case, the back and around the dial in imitation lizard skin. Internal ferrite rod aerial, sockets for external aerial and earth. Released April 1955, price £15 10s 0d plus purchase tax, batteries extra.

  Power requirements
  Batteries
  HT: 90 volt Ever Ready Batrymax B107
  LT: 1.5 volt Ever Ready Alldry 14 (AD14)
  AC mains
  Switchable to 200, 210, 220, 230 and 250V AC

  Similar to the earlier Ferranti 945.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (1207 dated 16 July 1955)

• Author
• Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 216 models, 120 with images and 163 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Ferranti, GB