From an April 1955 ERT magazine.
The attachment is from the 30th of April 1955 Electrical & Radio Trading.
Page 42 "Service - with a style." The article is about a Yorkshire firm called
Radio equipment(Yorkshire) Ltd. The service department was located at 115-117 Castlegate, Huddersfield. A floor area of exceeding 3,000 square feet, houses a staff of 16, including those who use vans.
Is this firm still in business? The text goes on to inform us that 30,000 radio and TV repairs have been done since 1930.
From upstairs I've found a few mint condition trade magazines including some from 1955, a few month before the start of ITV in London.
The cover features the HMV model 1840, "with the new EMISCOPE ELECTROSTATIC Focus tubes. That'll be the SE14-70.
Till Eulenspiegel.
Imagine fault-finding against an alarm clock ..... I'd have cotton wool for the clapper !
To understand the black art of electronics is to understand witchcraft. Andrew.
Working under those conditions one wonders what the staff turnover was like?
Till Eulenspiegel.
I presume the sets in the workshop would be the ones the field engineers couldn’t fix so most faults were probably not straight forward, unless that is all repairs were done on the bench or the field only swopped valves.
Staff turnover was probably high and not somewhere I would want to work. Imagine the alarm clock ringing in the morning and think you were already at work. ☹️
Frank
Being under that sort of time pressure might explain some of the slapdash repairs you see in sets.
Detail from the picture of the workshop in post #25.
Is that a Murphy TPG11 test pattern generator complete with it's external power supply unit?
From the ERT article: "In the department, the working space is mainly split into individual "booths" although there are no doors, and free passage of men and materials is not hindered."
Equipment comprises:-
2 Murphy pattern generators.
7 Advance signal generators (radio)"
2 oscilloscopes.
1 BSR beat frequency oscillator.
1 Ekco ditto.
1AVO electronic multi-range meter.
3 AVO 20,000ohms per volt meters.
4 AVO No. 7 meters.
5 multi-range high resistance testers up to 100 megohms.
3 capacity-resistance bridges.
2 Triplet 1000 ohms per volt meters.
A signal generator for Band 3 is to be obtained.
Plus those alarm clocks.
Till Eulenspiegel
