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TANNOY

Tannoy Products, Cantebury Grove, West Norwood, London S.E.27 [1937]

Tannoy specialised in the design of audio amplifiers, microphones and loudspeakers. It is therefore a bit of a suprise to find that they also produced a television. As far as I know, with the exception of this one model they did not produce any other televisions or indeed radios.

101

DATE	MODEL	STYLE	CRT	VALVES	RF	NOTES	PRICE
1938	101	C	12" Mullard	24/25	S/Het	An unusal feature is the set produces a 6KHz whistle when operating without a signal being present, intended as an alarm in case the viewer had fallen asleep (!). Also claimed to incorporate a special line/frame sync that required no user adjustment. Demonstrated at the 1938 Radiolympia. Versions with radio and possibly a gramaphone also available at extra cost.	£78-15-0

References :	http://www.tvhistory.tv quoting a contemporary review published in the "Journal of the Television Society" for December 1938.
	A Tannoy model, almost certainly the model 101, is described in Wireless World magazine, 1st September 1938.
	The book "Historic Televisions and Video Recorders" mentions a possible 12" radiogram model.

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