1958 British Ever Ready Sky Baronet Portable Radio

Another British portable.

Uses a leathercloth called Vynair, a sort of vinylized grill cloth. Porous enough to allow speaker sound, but sheer enough to make a decent overall covering.

Uses a reproduction B141 1.5 and 90 volt combination battery pack. I designed it in 1958-vintage graphics.

Most of Ever Ready's tube portables used the same control panel layout.

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• B141
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• Sky
• Baronet
• tubes
• valves

[manyvideoinerests]

Where were you able to find a battery that you could use in the radio so many years later?

[batterymaker]

I MADE it! It uses a single C cell for the filaments, ten nine volt batteries for the B voltage. I made the cover on the computer.

[gtcousins23]

Your best route is to use a rechargeable pack and an inverter but it would be best to be specifically tailored.

[carndrifter]

My father just bought one of these!We are having allot of trouble finding a battery or even how to make one,Any help would be great!

[spannerworks1]

Bill

Had a Eveready radio in the past great little thing.

Regards

Richard

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

WOW, never saw anything like it. Beautiful! Sounds really great! Neat, print circuit board. Had to be close to the last of the tube portables.

[umajunkcollector]

Me thinks this one gets louder than most. Does it have a five inch speaker? WOW, sixty cells to make a 90V battery! That would be about 20$-30$ to make that pack with sixty "AA" Energizers. One dead cell, and it's kapoot!