Up shortly in the Radios-TV colour brochure section, the Swedish manufacturer Luxor. This is super rare, I've not seen one before, and certainly not the ten sets within. I believe it to be from 1980, I'd certainly like to add one of them to join my other continental TVs. However, continental TVs are rare as the brochure, that goes for pretty much all continentals.
The dealership was;
R. Parmiter & Son LTD
Yeovil's Colour Television Specialist
1, Camborne Street
Tel Yeovil 4483
Even if I do say so myself, the brochure section at Radios-TV is, becoming a most comprehensive reference resource for vintage television.
I'll post here when it's available online.
p.s.
I do have a Luxor-Skantic timebase, and convergence panels in the stockroom. Maybe the mojo is slowly leading me towards a TV. 😎Â
@crustytvÂ
We sold Luxor audio equipment in the early 70’s, decent items but the importer when bust. Luckily the equipment was very reliable and didn’t need repair in the following 5 or 6 years before I left.
They did start being imported again, I don’t know if it was Luxor themselves or another importer. We had moved on by then so didn’t take the agency.
I look forward to the brochure.
Brochure now scanned and uploaded to the colour brochure section
Direct link here.
I'd like to find the 5609, but I'd settle for any, sadly I doubt I'll ever see any. 😪Â
Well, having read this I suppose I'd better scan my 1973-74 Luxor catalogue then!
That contains seven colour and four monochrome sets, and all bar one (the portable) have an unusual feature - a light at the rear of the set to backlight the wall behind it.
I remember the Luxors with the lamp on the back, when I first went self employed I bought a lot of sets from C.F Lake in Slough. They had a lot of ex rental Luxors firstly the earlier model then later on the later models like in Chris's brochure. They were sold off quite cheaply and made good used sales and lower price rentals. I never bothered with the light on the back though not really a thing for the UK viewers.
ISTR they had a green tripler that would occasionally fail. Some models had a PIL tube with a long neck. It had a red label but I can't remember what make, might have been Toshiba? It was the tube that usually wrote them off in the end. Very few faults and excellent reliability. Lakes went on to be a big Philips dealer but like most independents have gone now.
all bar one (the portable) have an unusual feature - a light at the rear of the set to backlight the wall behind it.
That'll be one of these?
ISTR they had a green tripler that would occasionally fail.Â
I had a rummage in my storeroom, as I seem to recall I do have some Luxor Skantic panels. My stealthy way of getting one of their TVs, normally it starts with a remote. 😆Â
I've got a timebase, signals with decoder, i/f with two tuners and video module. Finally, a convergence panel still attached is the front cabinet door.
Appears to be from a 6612, which might make it later than the 1980 brochure?
Hi Chris I do recognise those panels but I can't place the model, I think they may be from a earlier model than the ones in the brochure as I think those sets had one vertical panel with the tube neck through a hole in the middle. Those models were fitted with PIL tubes with convergence rings on the neck so I don't think they had a convergence panel. Have you got the tube base panel ? That may give a clue as to what tube was used.
6612 doesn't appear on Radiomuseum, but what sets start 66-- appear to be from around the 1975/6 mark.
Yes, so probably 110 degree delta gun chassis, if it was 20AX it wouldn't have all those convergence controls. It was mostly the later PIL sets I saw but I do vaguely that chassis, I probably didn't see many...Â
The IF can has a 38.9 label on it, is it a Continental 5.5Mhz sound set up?
i remember when Rediffusion has 26 inch Luxor colour televisions. They had good sound and picture
John
@raditechman I serviced loads of them when i worked at Rediffusion w/shop. RT531/22, RT524/26Â Very reliable sets. Picture and sound quality was much better than any of the UK sets at the time. They used a PC92 valve as eht regulator. I still have the service manual.
