Vintage TV & Radio Service Data Sheets & Test Reports

[Daiforcled]

This may be of interest for collectors, repairers or researchers interested in vintage documents and equipment collected by my late father who was a radio, TV and later electronics engineer in 1940s to 1970s.
For example Wireless World Test Report for Pye Television Model B16T December 1946,
to RER (Radio and Electrical Retailing) Service Data Sheet R201 for Sobell SG671 sterophonic radiogram May 1964.
Total bundle includes 40 to 50+ Test reports and/or Service Data Sheets for radio and TV between these dates.
 
My father Cled was a TV engineer for David Robinson, Bedford in the early 1950s and later electronic engineer in Plessey & Marconi. I have other radio and electronic reference books and text books from 1950s and 60s. Are these still of interest? I appreciate they may already be available in digital archives in which case I can recycle these old papers. He would have loved this Forum!

Dai, Surrey, UK.

[ppppenguin]

Hello Dai and welcome to our forum.

Wireless World and many other journals and books are freely available at https://worldradiohistory.com/ For example it took only a few seconds to find the B16T report: https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Wireles...%22b16t%22

Much service data is also available online. But some people prefer paper copies and there is still much that hasn't been digitised.

[Daiforcled]

Thank you Jeremy

I guessed these may be available somewhere. One link led to National Archives - valuable resource but slow.

Another here https://www.service-data.com/page.php/co...ono-tv-dvd UK Vintage Radio Television Service Data
looks really useful with similar data digitised and available in DVD and other formats.

I have one enquiry pending re the TV data, possibly over 130 reports. I have separated the Radio and other
Sound systems (tape recording and record players) sheets. Available as a bundle for cost of postage.

But probably enough that these are mostly on digital archives now. So if no other enquiries I can recycle without
feeling I let Dad down. Like his work he kept meticulous records, useful for troubleshooting the early Atlas computer
at Manchester. From brief visits to this group there are quite a few like minded souls and skilled hands. 

Entirely appropriate that these records are now in digital format.