19 set spare parts

[Alastair Thomas]

The spares box that came with the Lynx is as illustrated below. It is for valves and in the legend, centre bottom, someone has handwritten "Transistor". If this is original it definitely dates the box to well after WWII.
Alastair

[tankbarrell]

That's the spare valve case, obviously! Normally, vehicles carried both spare valve case and spare parts case.

[Bruce MacMillan]

Originally Posted by Alastair Thomas

The spares box that came with the Lynx is as illustrated below. It is for valves and in the legend, centre bottom, someone has handwritten "Transistor". If this is original it definitely dates the box to well after WWII.
Alastair

This box is the spare valve box for the Larkspur era SR C12 so certainly post war. The set was initially supplied with a vibrator supply but a later transistorized unit was provided. That would account for the handwritten "transistor" where the vibrator would have been.

[Alastair Thomas]

Are the transistorised vibrators still available? That would solve an ongoing problem with period car radios.
Alastair

[Bruce MacMillan]

The vibrator wasn't transistorized, the whole power supply was.

There are drop in solid state replacements available for common vibrators.

Check out this site:
http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/vibs/index.html

[Alastair Thomas]

Thanks a lot Bruce. That is really helpful.
Alastair