Ultra Tiger Radio of 1933 tunes into Wartime broadcasts!

Electrically restored 4 valve TRF Radio running. Hitler speech and other old programmes are featured. Ultra Tiger Radio made in Erskine Road, Chalk Farm, London N.W.3, England in 1933. If you check on http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl you can see the old building and entrance to the works at the rear. Very unusually there is thankfully an old film of the factory manufacturing this model of receiver in existance and the building is clearly much the same. This is quite an imposing set in original unrestored, rather time distressed condition. A 2 band, MW and LW 4 valve TRF made with Art Deco influenced design. I bought it at an auction sale and then not long after electrically restored it. It needed a fair amount of effort to get it working again. Two of the front end coupling coils had green spot and were open circuit. The speaker coil was broken and its matching transformer missing. It needed a number of capacitors replaced. The paxolin band switch has bent through being left for many years in one position making contacts poor. I had to make a back cover for it and have yet to start restoring the cabinet and replace the grill cloth so what you see here is 77 years of life, worts and all. It works quite well and picked up my wartime AM transmission along with a good number of standard transmissions. It has a nice warm glow to the dial and is fun to fire up.

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• Ultra Tiger
• 4 valve TRF
• Wartime radio
• Hitler speech
• Wireless Radio
• Old time radio

[Wnoronz]

My parents owned an identical Ultra Tiger from new (1931). It lasted until the 1950s.

I recall the old medium wave station markings, LN, NN, SN, DN etc, meaning London National, North National, Scottish National & Droitwich National. On the outbreak of World War II all these became the Home Service and its regions, Droitwich becoming The Light Programme. In 1967 became Radio 4 and Radio 2. Different frequencies (wavelengths) of course A lovely old radio was The Ultra Tiger!

[hornybikerboi]

lovely radio i used to own an ultra pantha radiogram with same fret work.

[Giganaut233]

old WW2 stations still running? oh, try tuning to russian stations like the UBV-76, a notorious buzzer radio but on rare occasions, it broadcasts russian command codes and some other jibberish due to the distortion of the mic static