R1155A Spotted in a Sorry State Today.

[Yorkie]

Saw this R1155A at Hornsea Radio Rally today with an asking price of £45.00. It looked rather beyond redemption, and really, what it needed was a quiet and dignified burial, but after it languished all morning, someone carted it off. Was it an impluse buy, which - once the novelty of aquistion has worn off (ie, before the buyer arrives back home), its fate to be added to a 'projects to do but which I may never get around to' list, and to languish forgotten in a damp garden shed for years to come? Or might it be a total refurshment to bring it back to pristine condition as we've seen in the BVWS Bulletin? We'll never know, but if it were a person rather than a WW2 relic, in its present state I think it would be in intensive care, on a drip, with its card marked: 'Nil by mouth - DNR'.

I often wonder how many 1155s ever saw action in WW2? Not as many as we may think would be my guess, but when we see one, we like to imagine that as an iconic radio which was introduced at the onset of the war, it may have done service in a Lancaster or Wellington that limped home on one engine through a barrage of flak, from a night time mission over Hamburg in 1944. I think the truth in many instances is rather more mundane. Truth is that in many instances, they probably never left the warehouse and became ex-WD surplus.

No harm in daydreaming though!

[ed731pdh]

Seen worse, have one here that is positivly brain dead in the hospital ward compared to that example.

[Joe]

I'd have been tempted on the basis of that photo.

As has been said, if it were beyond hope the bits would be worth that.

- Joe

[pwdrive]

Front panel seems all there, switch escutcheons, ID plate etc, just the Aural Sense switch missing, the rest of the Jones stuff might be behind that coax panel, even looks like the pencil scale is sought of there, seen worse, seen better.

Lawrence
(edit) oops, just noticed no logging scale, not the end of the world.

[pwdrive]

I seem to remember some NOS in crates for sale 70's/80's Johns Radio?
anyone remember?

Lawrence.

[AlanBeckett]

That's an early one - original Tuning Drive - so might have languished in the Stores from the beginning.
I've seen a lot worse and as Lawrence says it's almost all there.

Alan

[Andy M0FYA]

The important factor would be whether the DF circuitry is intact or has been stripped out. If it's all there then £45 isn't too bad a price, in my view. Without the DF parts it's an uphill battle to restore it to original condition.
Andy

[Skywave]

Condition-wise, it looks just the same as one that was given to me in 1966. At the time, I was led to believe that it was ex-Navy. I parted company with it a few years later: can't recall now to where or to whom it went. I might have PX-ed it for a Marconi 52 set.

Al.