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Suppose the production started on a small scale in the middle of 1940 and reached full production rate in the end of 1942. Suppose that some 10.000 receivers had been produced until 4205. The remaining 70.000 were then built in three years until 4505. If the production rate was now linear my serial number would have been built around 4305 or probably a little later, that is the second half of 1943. It is also possible that different producers had their own number series so that the receivers were not produced in serial number order. (Dave Kemplen has in his article in Radio Bygones stated that his receiver with serial 3051 was built as late as August 1942, which could indicate either that or a slow start of production). There also are receivers with very high serial numbers around 100.000 and with a B before the number. It is a bit odd that my receiver which was manufactured as model R1155 10D/98 and has the tuning type 13 has such a high serial number, but after all it was war and there might not have been resources to build enough filters and tuning devices type 35. My receiver has never had the fine tuning scale around the knob, there are no holes drilled for it, it was removed on later R1155s. Probably receivers with both tuning types were manufactured in parallell for some time. My receiver also has a colored scale, late receivers had black markings. Despite contradicting facts my guess is that my receiver was manufactured in 1943. A round stamp with the letters/figures MWT 164 and a figure stamp 1488 indicates that the receiver was modified and checked by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co (MWTC).
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Literature Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref 1 2 3 4 5 Manual A.P.2548A vol I chapter 2 (see link on main page) Lancaster bomber with receiver R1155 (my collage, refer to the photo gallery) Radio Goes to War and a Legend is Born (by Chas A. Miller, Radio Bygones nr 1) Rebuilding an R1155 (Dave Kemplen, Radio Bygones nr 59) Articles and letters from readers in Radio Bygones, see RB master index
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