Dynatron Ether Sovereign

Postwar Television

Dynatron Ether Sovereign

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Early Television

This set was made around 1948 and was probably the most expensive TV ever made in the UK. Dynatron equipment was very expensive, and this set has a top class radio tuner and amplifier in a large stepped cabinet with the TV in the middle and the radio on one side and the phonograph on the other side. There are only about 3 surviving sets..

This set has a special history. It was the demonstration model for the 1949 Radiolympia radio show and was kept at Dynatron's head office until they were sold to Ekco.

Here are comments from Mike Izycky:

I saw some of your meeting last night (monthly ETF Zoom meeting) before going to bed but was interested in the segment covering the Dynatron "Ether Sovereign".

I used to have one of these but due to its poor condition I scrapped it: I can however confirm to your audience that although the cabinet looks like it is in three parts, it is just a one-piece cabinet. RGD had a set that really was in three parts, consisting of a television receiver, a radio receiver and a record player although the television receiver could be fitted with a preset-tuned radio if desired. This was marketed as the "3-in-1"

Returning to the Dynatron, there was a very similar contemporary television-only receiver and this was the Dynatron TV24 "Falcon".
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This is from a 1947 British trade magazine:

Early Television