![]() The kit cost was £11-10-0, Advertised by several companies in June 1961 Practical Wireless. Simply the Plessey PCB and parts in a commercial case. There was indeed a Practical Wireless Kit Contessa MkIII. It may have been sold as a kit too, later.Ī bit more searching reveals it was also used in a Magnavox 300TR as well as Defiant A55 and Alba A22 and A33. They made radios for other Brands from earliest days, sometimes entirely (Co-op Defiant) and sometimes excess demand that couldn't be met. Plessey only sold Professional, Military, Telecom & Aerospace Radio sets uunder their own name. It wouldn't suprise me if a number of different brands used the OEM Plessey Chassis. I'd suspect it's an unlisted Defiant given how similar cabinet it is to the Valve Portable Defiant A3 and same chassis as Defiant A55. The Defiant A55 though (made by Plessey) is also the same chassis. I searched for 6 transistor UK GB radios 1957 to 1963 under Advance Search, also looked at OC44 models first as that seemed likely looking at chassis. The only Contessa Kit I find here is the Radio Constuctor Contessa (quite different).īut I find an Alba 22 with what looks like identical chassis. But some early PCB production was hand soldered and not wave soldered. You can't see the soldering under the PCB anyway. There were plenty of "kits" offered in early 1960s "Practical Wireless" but apart from "Heathkit" many were "remaindered" Production stock, not designed as kits. Looks late 1950s/Early 1960s Commercial UK model. It doesn't look especially like a kit to me. Except the Early Transistor Defiant Models listed don't look like that. ![]() It looks like a transistor version of the very late Co-op Defiant A3 Battery Valve model. It's a PP8 style connector (2 x 6V), but for smaller PP11 2 x 4.5 ).
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