FERGUSON 436T

If you bought a telly in 1958 then it'd almost certainly look identical to this, a slightly rounded rectangular box with minimum controls at the front . Just like a modern car, remove the badge and you'd have no idea who made it. However, this one is a Ferguson badge on a Thorn manufactured chassis and has twice the normal number of controls at the front due to also including a V.H.F. radio.

The majority of the circuitry is mounted on two vertical printed circuit boards although there are no clips to hold the valves in place.

The count of 13 valves initially seems a bit small, but six of these are two valves in one envelope, so thats effectively 19 valve elements. Add to that a quantity of s*m*c*nd*ct*r diodes and I'd expect plenty of modern features, such as flywheel synch .. ah, nope, hasn't got that. Or even use differentiation for the frame timebase synch. Ah, not got that either.

Supplier's lable pinned to TV back