The Eddystone Radio Collections Page
This page is where you will find details of some Eddystone collections. Those with web sites of their own collections or who have photos of their collection which they would like to put on this web site should contact Chris G0EYO below.
Eddystone Museums
When I was Managing Director of
Eddystone Radio from 1984 I was keen that we should be proud of our history. We
had a number of old models on display in our foyer at the Bath Tub at West Heath
but we need this room for something else. I found another, larger room and had
it kitted out with shelving and display cupboards and the intention was that
this is somewhere we could take customers and shown them our history and our
present. In addition to the sets tha
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had previously on display I found a large number of sets and prototype sets
stored in the Development Block. These were all dragged out and cleaned up and
displayed in the museum. We never really had enough time to catalogue and
properly label the old sets or to sort out the many archives that we had but it
was a very popular venue with our more mature customers.
We were helped in the early years by Howard Turner of Centre Electronics who had a nice collection of Eddystone receivers that he loaned us to display in the museum. Alan Ainslie also offered to sort and index our archives in the early 1990's. The museum was transferred to our Selly Oak premises when we moved in the early 1990's and a small room was found for it there. Fortunately Graeme G3GGL was able to take some pictures and made up a nice collage for the Eddystone User Group.
Chris Pettitt G0EYO
2. Ken Brooks G3XSJ 640 with B2 spy set and key for 80m CW
3. Gerry O'Hara's S750 in its plastic case
5. HMS Collingwood, Portsmouth, Museum of Communications and Radar, collection of Eddystone sets