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Old 10-01-19, 12:02
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Originally Posted by Chris Suslowicz View Post
I suspect that was a purely pragmatic decision. America is closer to Australia than England, there would be far less of a threat from enemy action (at least, initially), and England couldn't make enough wireless sets for its own use anyway.

There was almost cetainly existing commercial trade since the AWA manufactured version of the WS19 used the Australian (I assume) versions of the American valves rather than the UK/US market ones. (The usual "dominate your market by making your kit dependent on your own manufactured parts" trick.)

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Yes that pretty well sums it up. The AWA 19 set was fitted with valves such as the ..6U7G as rf and if amps ..AWA made their own valves branded as AWV . I read an interesting article by a chap who worked at AWV , he described how they modified contemporary US made valves to suit the local Australian manufacturing conditions.


The little infantry 108 sets had those short squat GT series octal based valves
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