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'VULCAN' 2 VALVE BREADBOARD  WIRELESS SET, 1925

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'VULCAN' 2 VALVE BREADBOARD WIRELESS SET, 1925

Breadboard wireless with 2 valves, it requires headphones or High Impedance speaker for listening and three batteries, it would also require at least one hundred feet of aerial and a good earth.

Made by J.G.Graves,Hallamgate Works, Crookes Rd, Sheffield ,South Yorkshire, in 1925. The radio was called the 'VULCAN' and came complete
with 90volt HT battery, 2volt accumulator, Grid Bias battery, Loudspeaker, Aerial cable with insulators,rope halyard and pulley, and lead-in tube (all missing) and connecting leads, all for £7-17-6d

Bruce Hammond Collection

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  • This radio set was made by J.G.Graves,Hallamgate works, Crookes Rd, Sheffield ,South Yorkshire. in 1925. The radio was called the 'VULCAN' and came complete
    with 90volt HT battery,2volt accumulator, Grid Bias battery,
    Loudspeaker, Aerial cable with insulators,rope halyard and pulley,
    lead-in tube and connecting leads , all for £7-17-6d
    .......... Pete , Barnsley, South Yorks, UK, 9th of January 2010

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