614VN

Philips USA

  • Year
  • 1941
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 321094

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 6
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); Export model
  • Wave bands
  • Wave Bands given in the notes.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent or electro-dynamic (moving coil), system not known yet.
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 614VN - Philips USA
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, low profile (big size).
  • Notes
  • Philips model 614VN was manufactured in the USA shortly after the beginning of WW 2 and had the Dutch East Indies as destination.
    Although Philips in the Netherlands continued manufacturing radios during WW 2, it was only allowed to export to German friendly countries (the former Dutch colonies did not have this status). So Philips outsourced production of radios with destination Dutch East Indies to countries like the USA and Australia, until the Japanese invasion in 1942.

    See also USA models 513AN and  518AN and Australian model 431AS.

    Wave range: 16.2 - 555 m.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 295.00 Hfl
  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original prospect or advert (Soerabaijasch Handelsblad, August 1941)
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad, August 11, 1941
  • Author
  • Model page created by Gidi Verheijen. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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