Tv Sets In The Early 70S

[DeeLicious]

who were the main manufacturers of televisions in the UK in the early 1970s?

[maggiebee]

Think ours was a Bush.

[douglas9401]

Ferguson was one of the bigger ones along with Philips and Bush, then along came the Japanese.

[TheChair]

Not sure that Philips, which is Dutch, ever made TVs in the UK. GEC, Ferguson, and Marconi might have, though.

[whiskeryron]

Pye

[sunny-dave]

Add Decca and Radio Rentals to the above

[ferlew]

Our first colour set around 1973 was a Mitsubishi, it cost more then than they do now.

[sunny-dave]

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/tv-in-bradford-part-2-radio-rentals/

[gingejbee]

I don't think that Philips marketed TVs back then in the UK....Pye did, and became part of Philips.
There was Ecko (perhaps a while earlier) and Ferguson, Murphy and Ultra...all three incorporated into the Thorn group.

[MargoTester]

Bush, Ferguson, Grundig

[Postdog]

Baird

[-SharonA-]

We had a Grundig!

[gollob]

I think that the queen had a Phillips 9 inch

[andres]

Not only the Queen ^^^^In 1956 we had a nine inch television with a huge magnifier over the screen !

[Peter Pedant]

// Our first colour set around 1973 was a Mitsubishi, it cost more then than they do now.//

no British firm could offer the precision engineering required ( hem hem)
The tube had a meshy screeny thing between the cathode and the fluorescent screen that had to be engineered to micron accuracy

[Denton]

Think everybody missed gollobs joke.!!

[tonyav]

I didn't.

[rowanwitch]

I think the first one we had was a baird but logoed up as radio rentals.

[tonyav]

If I remember correctly I think my mom and dad's telly ( when I was small ) was Redefusion.

[hc4361]

Tvs were hugely expensive which is why so many had a money slot on the side - put your coins in and the tv worked. People would rent them and the cost of the tv licence was usually included in the rent.

Radios were also a luxury in the 1930s. The average weekly wage for a man was £3 9s. A typical wireless set was £10 2/6, including installation.

The first tv I remember my parents owning was a Grunding. When the picture started rolling a quick thump to the side of the case put it right :D

[tonyav]

a quick thump to the side of the case put it right

Top with ours, thumping it on the side knocked the contrast out.