General Information

Serial #

91159

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Receiver body is made of wood. A fabric mesh net covers speaker opening knobs & buttons are plastic. Metal plates in receiver body with perforations for heat release. Picture tube shaped screen made of plastic.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

55.0 cm

Width

35.6 cm

Height

76.9 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Television

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

PHILCO

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

THIS TYPE OF SET WAS SOLD AND USED IN CANADA.

Function

To receive transmitted information from television antenna trans- mitters and convert it into video form.

Technical

EXAMPLE OF ADVANCED STYLING FOR THE PERIOD. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MUCH SHORTER PICTURE TUBE ALLOWED FOR THIS STYLING.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'PHILCO/Predicta' appears on centre front of top edge of television./For complete transcript of markings please see Supp. Info. File 841194.

Missing

Knob and misc parts from proper left side.

Finish

Brown stained wood body. Speaker areas are covered with a goldcoloured mesh fabric and the surrounding molding is gold coloured plastic. Tuning knob is gold coloured. The screen is avacado green. The surrounding molding post and swivel joints are gold coloured. The rear casing of the screen is white plastic.

Decoration

N/A