Console TV with Radio and Record Player 4043

Pye Ltd., Radio Works; Cambridge

  • Year
  • 1937 ?
perfect model
  • Category
  • Television- and Radio Receiver, perh. also + Rec. etc. (TV Radio)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 272221

 Technical Specifications

  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Details
  • Record Player (perh.Changer)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 200 - 250 Volt
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Console TV with Radio and Record Player 4043 - Pye Ltd., Radio Works;
  • Shape
  • Console with any shape - in general
  • Notes
  • This model of a very big TV-combination is in the MSPT Museum für Kommunikation in Frankfurt (P-25-04-1 & 4.0.23158) where it is listed as from 1937 from Pye Telecommunications. The picture is seen by a deflecting mirror (Umlenkspiegel). It is a model 4043 from about April 1937. Model 4044 arrived about June 1937 and was a normal styled console.

    The model 4045 is a T.R.F, otherwise most similar to model 4044. Reason: The new EF50 valve from Philips, enabled Pye to build a high gain 45MHz fringe reception receiver, a Tuned Radio Frequency (TRF) type not a Superhet type.
    Model 4046 has a 9" (direct) screen and uses about 19 tubes, ca. September 1937.

    It has probably a 12" Ediswan picture tube 12H (4KV EHT). Probably: Magnetic frame drive and electrostatic line drive. Inc. Radio. Price included supply and installation of an aerial plus 12 months servicing for £ 78-15-0.
    About September 1936 the chassis 4201 with a 12" CRT and 22 valves was ready but we don't know if this was used here.

    By the way: In the book "Early Television: A Bibliographic Guide to 1940" by George Shiers, page 313, we can find: "3558 - Pye Radio and Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-77). "Television" Br. 405,006, July 20, 1932. Assembly with phonic wheel and mirror drum employed with a light source, optical system, and modulator for projecting the light beam onto a coated glass screen. (3559)" and "Pye Radio and P.C. Goldmark. "Valve circuit" Br. 406,288, July 10, 1932, Capacitive-discharge tube circuit for driving a phonic motor. (3885)"

    Peter Goldmark was a 26 year old Hungarian inventor in 1932. He left Cambridge after 18 months after Pye told him that TV would probably never be useful in the home and went to the USA where he later became the head of CBS Laboratories (invention of the LP record).

  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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