01-05-2018, 10:11 PM
Hi there Radioroslyn,
Thanks for your reply. No ,I do not have the car to go with the radio. I think the correct car to go with the radio is a 1938 Ford v8. I would need about $35,000 to buy one here!I do have a 1952 Armstrong Siddeley Whitworth for which the correct radio is probably a Smiths Radiomobile.
I found the F1540 radio at our local annual swap meet run by the Canterbury Vintage Car Club ,promoted as the largest swap meet in the Southern Hemisphere. Like your Hershey swap meet it runs for three days (officially).
I was unaware the radio was a Philco until I got it home & took the back off and of course was delighted to find the schematic and parts location chart inside. Unlike my second Philco, also a swap meet purchase, of similar or possibly slightly earlier vintage which uses the same valve lineup ( so it is that generic Philco 78 6A7 78 75 41 84 circuit) but which has no model identification at all - no model number tag , no paper schematic inside, nothing. I do not have the tuning head for it - maybe that was where the identification number was attached. I have scoured Riders manuals from about 1933 to 1941 but no luck so far. The closest I have got is Model 816 /817 in 1937 or Model 826 in 1938. The parts placement chart for these models is almost correct in Riders but the volume control is always in the wrong place. Perhaps someone in the Phorum can help. I also have a radio from a 1947 Packard Clipper which is also a Philco but I haven't really got into that yet. Cheers and all the best, David
Thanks for your reply. No ,I do not have the car to go with the radio. I think the correct car to go with the radio is a 1938 Ford v8. I would need about $35,000 to buy one here!I do have a 1952 Armstrong Siddeley Whitworth for which the correct radio is probably a Smiths Radiomobile.
I found the F1540 radio at our local annual swap meet run by the Canterbury Vintage Car Club ,promoted as the largest swap meet in the Southern Hemisphere. Like your Hershey swap meet it runs for three days (officially).
I was unaware the radio was a Philco until I got it home & took the back off and of course was delighted to find the schematic and parts location chart inside. Unlike my second Philco, also a swap meet purchase, of similar or possibly slightly earlier vintage which uses the same valve lineup ( so it is that generic Philco 78 6A7 78 75 41 84 circuit) but which has no model identification at all - no model number tag , no paper schematic inside, nothing. I do not have the tuning head for it - maybe that was where the identification number was attached. I have scoured Riders manuals from about 1933 to 1941 but no luck so far. The closest I have got is Model 816 /817 in 1937 or Model 826 in 1938. The parts placement chart for these models is almost correct in Riders but the volume control is always in the wrong place. Perhaps someone in the Phorum can help. I also have a radio from a 1947 Packard Clipper which is also a Philco but I haven't really got into that yet. Cheers and all the best, David
