Wireless sets No. 19 MK ll - 1942

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

19 sets were not that bad!! Yes, they used the shotgun approach to tuning and may have had a slight tendency to bounce off frequency, but all and all took a lot of abuse and kept working. The advice in the manual is to 'search boldly' for an incoming signal (lest you spend a lot of effort trying to make sence of a weak side signal) and that, I think, is advice for anything you do in life.

In WW2, there was apparently only one trooper per battalion who truly understood how to net the sets (i.e., get them all tuned to the same frequency). It was that poor schmucks job to hop from turret to turret before every action to get things working.

I concur, saving a set is great. The date would imply it is an 'English only' version rather than the later 'English/Russian' ones. That alone is quite rare. If you would like an independent, Canadian evaluation of value, price, etc., P.M....

Does it look like this? This one is dated 1942 and is Serial No. C127.