Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Briarwood Television Ltd
Think I'll dust off the old time machine and nip back to 1981.
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Those sets would have been around 10 years old then, I wonder what condition they were in, the Pye 697 would have had the burnt PCB problems in the Line/PSU and CDA boards unless they had been replaced. I also seem to recall the convergence PCB's starting to give trouble with the heat of the ww pots. The Bush would be OK except perhaps the PSU PCB.
Plenty Thorn for your entertainment Chris.
Frank
Frank
Who would have been the target market for these sets, because they were already getting long in the tooth? Less well-off families finally converting to colour, second sets for the more affluent, who?
Cathovisor said
Who would have been the target market for these sets, because they were already getting long in the tooth? Less well-off families finally converting to colour, second sets for the more affluent, who?
I think they were sold to smaller rental shops, perhaps with less overheads than the big rental outfits. Some seemed to do quite well out of the business. So via a small rental outfit you would be correct about the target market.
Frank
Frank
Pretty much the same as here in the late 80s, we had a Thorn ex-rental warehouse on our doorstep (Teleprice) and around here was literally flooded with Thorn sets and VCRs, the shops I worked for did a roaring trade in sales at the time.
The better small shops (which I worked for) put guarantees on stuff that was sold, there were a few lone rangers delivering sets from taxis as well.
we mainly sold to the lower to middle range of the market, even then about 1988 a decent text G11/TX10 was still sold for about 70 quid, VCRs were still fairly expensive a refurbed 3V23 about a £135, the 3V29 top loader about a £110 this was to shop sales to the public, and we were one of the cheaper outlets.
We also sold some 9K sets at the bottom end of the price range, but they had to be in exceptionally good condition, we ended up with loads of earlier sets as trade ins, these were usually absolutely worn out and were mostly just scrapped.
All my bosses around this time were honest men, they sold decent sets for a fair price for the time backed up by warranty.
Before I was in the trade though and prior to Thorn flooding up here with ex-rental stuff, this would have been around the back end of the 70s to early mid 80s there must have been a Philips outlet of some sort because G8s were everywhere just like the Thorn sets later.
Chris would have had a field day in our graveyard.
They also sold "Good working mono TVs, Pye, GEC, Bush etc." for £8 each +VAT for d/s rotaries.
I purchased one mail order in 1981. In due course a huge box containing an ITT/KB KV025/1 arrived in perfect condition some 250 miles south of Bradford!
As advertised good working I switched it on. Sound but no picture, hmm... The top cap connection to the PL36 had become detached probably through its long journey south. Sorting this out resulted in a superb picture and a perfectly working set!
Happy memories when such sets were still common.
Brian
Hi
Blimey that brings back memories , i used to travel down to Bradford regularly on a Wednesday on my day off .
I must have bought hundreds of G8's from them in the past , i think they were mostly ex Visionhire as they would have the big yellow stock label on the back .
Regards .
Gary.
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