Philips tube carradio info requested
[ Nederlands Forum over Oude Radio´s ] Geschreven door Corne Bastiaansen om 15. Aug 2000 15:38:15:
Hi,
A friend of mine is restoring a '48 Chevy Pick-up Truck and managed to
get his hands on an old Philips carradio, type NX596V. It's split up
into a supply unit and a voluminous all-tubes receiver part. By the size
of the front panel it seems this radio was used on the american market.
The tuning backpanel is changeable in about 5 ranges of wavelengths.However, it does not seem to work and my friend doesn't have any
documentation.Questions:
1. Does anybody know where to get proper documentation on this carradio?
A service manual would be perfect.2. What is the model year of this carradio?
3. I've read about some sort of a club collecting and restoring old
[car] radio's in Holland in an issue of the Philips Magazine a couple
of years ago. Does anaybody know of their (or similar clubs) whereabouts?Thanks in advance,
Corne.
ps: this is one of the replies I already got on the philips newsgroup:
> Questions:
>
> 1. Does anybody know where to get proper documentation on this carradio?
> A service manual would be perfect.Philips Company Archives is a good place to start looking. Phone 55017.
> 2. What is the model year of this carradio?From memory, NX594V stands for:
N: product type
X: production country (X is Netherlands)
5: price category (any number between 0-9, 0 being the cheapest, 9 the
most expensive)
9: indication for year. In this case 1949, because in the 30ies a
different code system was used and somewhere during the fifties it was
changed again.
4: some sort of serial number. I'm not sure what this was used for.
V: I believe power supply. 'V' could mean 'Vibrator' power supply.
>
> 3. I've read about some sort of a club collecting and restoring old
> [car] radio's in Holland in an issue of the Philips Magazine a couple
> of years ago. Does anaybody know of there whereabouts?No, but you might try the dutch radio collectors forum:
http://f16.parsimony.net/forum28305/Good luck, Clement.
So that's why I am trying this forum....