TFT E1 H 7 1939

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*Fernseh AG company structure was shortly thereafter, due to strong pressure of the German Government, changed in: Fernseh Gesellschaft mit beschränkte Haftung, commonly known as Fernesh G.m.b.H. Dr. Siegmund Loewe (had to)gave up his company share, and had immigrated to the US in the mean time.

My friend Tom Going, also a member of IEHG (International Electronics History Group), sent me his following comments, to the list of British TV set manufactures mentioned at page 4 of the E1 pdf file:

Dear All,

I thought the listing of Television manufacturers was interesting,
too, but partly because of who were left off the list:

Pye
Bush (making also for Baird)
Philips
Cossor

All these companies made significant technical efforts in developing
television before the war; indeed Pye's 45 m c/s I.F. strip became of
importance for Radar, using as it did the EF50 valves. The set in
which this was to be used was "written up" in an Proc. IEE paper by
B.J. Edwards when it became apparent that it would not go into
production, ca. 1941.

Cossor had people such as O.Puckle and L.H. Bedford (Richard Trim
would know all about this) and made Cathode Ray tubes.

Pye worked hard on television, and had for a time Peter Goldmark
working for them, before he went to CBS in America; they also had
later (ca. 1938) taken a controlling interest in Hivac (which I think
Keith is writing about, in his valve book)and they had Gerhard
Liebmann , emigre from the Loewe company, as a CRT man, I believe,
working for the Pye valve company, Cathodeon.

BUSH .... DID use the secondary emission valve, the TSE4 (Philips
EE(P)1 dressed as Mullard with a 4-v heater)in their amplifier
circuits....I do not think anyone else used it.

...........of the other companies in the list:
Burndept, R.G.D., Tannoy, Vidor and McMichael were very small concerns
as far as television was concerned and will have sold very few sets in
toto.

R.G.D. or Radio Gramophone Developments were a "Rolls Royce" of a
company, and their products were exclusive, very solid, and very
expensive.

K.B. or Kolster-Brandes was the British trade-mark for radio and t.v.
of the International Standard Electric Company of America.

I am writing from memory here........... Russell Burns's books are the
'bible' for all this. Somewhere I do have some Model listings with
valve-lineups, from contemporary journals of the day.

It should be remembered that Britain through the BBC ( albeit
reluctantly) did have some regular television broadcasting, intended
for home reception. But the sets were a luxury item, comparable in
cost to a small car in some cases, (itself a luxury for most people).
I believe I have read that the total number of domestic receivers
sold did not exceed 20,000.

Kind regards,

Tom G.