COSSOR 900

From the photo you'd be forgiven for thinking this was just another average sized console set. However it is difficult to describe just what a monster this thing is; it may not be quite as tall as my fridge-freezer but it is certainly as wide and definately deeper ! The pictures opposite will hopefully give some scale to it - note that the CRT sticks out the back by half a foot (152.4mm in new fangled units).

If, like me, you have a bit of a CRT phobia then this is one set I would recommend you avoid ! 15" CRT's were leading edge stuff at the time, and so delicate even Cossor saw fit to wrap them in a protective sock in case for when they imploded. Just in case a bit of help were needed, the radio chassis is held convieniently above the neck/bulb join of the CRT, held with the minimum of screws.

The design is split into three chassis. The upper chassis is a radio chassis covering LW, MW and SW, below which is the main television chassis. Finally, buried in the bottom, is the PSU chassis which is also home to the audio output valve (a directly heated triode) that is shared between the TV and radio chassis's.

As well as being the largest direct-view CRT, other notable features are the superhet vision receiver and white-spotter interference limiter, all way ahead of the basic girlie little TRFs that were typical of other manufacturer's pre-war sets.