BVWS Bulletin Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2001)

BVWS BulletinVolume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2001)

Front cover:  Ekco AC74 on a tubular steel stand
Back cover:  Sparx - A wireless card game from the Twenties

Page Title Summary/Notes
4 The Amplion Dragon, the evolution of its design
Martyn Bennett
8 'Machine Age' Ekco stands of the 1930's
Robert Chesters
11 John Logie Baird - Man of determination and inventive mind
11 Pigeons at War An exhibition by Porthcurno Museum
12 Chrome plating in British wireless cabinet design of the 1930's
John R Sully
15 Book Review
Ray Bintliff
From the Wireless to the Web by Peter R Jenson
16 How green was your Ekco?
Robert Chesters
Investigation of the green marble AD65 myth
19 The American 'Mystery' record player
John Savage
20 Volksempfanger; the myth and the reality
Mike Izycky in collaboration with Gerhard Habberzettl and Andrew Denton
An overview of German co-operative receiver production
25 Some Bush wirelesses of the 1940's
Mike Gohl
26 Enigma - noun, problem, puzzle, question, riddle
George Smith
28 A collection in Southend
Robert Chesters
Robert Chesters spends a day at the seaside with Bill Caten and his many radio sets
30 The story of the BBC
Robert Chesters
32 A tribute to George R Jessop - a fine old man of wireless
Barry Vyse
Obituary
33 Vintage wireless rooms at Pitstone Green Museum A rural life museum in Buckinghamshire