- Country
- New Zealand-Aotearoa
- Manufacturer / Brand
- Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd.; Wellington
- Year
- 1935 ?
- Category
- Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 275150
- Number of Tubes
- 5
- Valves / Tubes
- Main principle
- Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 465 kHz
- Power type and voltage
- Alternating Current supply (AC) / 230 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 8 inch = 20.3 cm
- Material
- Wooden case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: 516P [Short] - Philips Electrical Industries
- Shape
- Tablemodel, Tombstone = decorative upright, not cathedral but can have rounded edges.
- Notes
-
Two known variants - only apparent difference is the cabinet. Other variant is taller with a different grille. This one has an angle-mounted speaker where the other variant has the speaker mounted flat against the back of the grille
Manufactured for Philips NZ by Radio Corp of NZ prior to the Philips factory beginning operations - which explains the RCNZ speaker and coil cans.
Used Philips side-contact valves.
- Author
- Model page created by Steve Dunford. See "Data change" for further contributors.
- Other Models
-
Here you find 135 models, 130 with images and 111 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd.; Wellington