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So once upon a time, in Olde Merrie England, there was a company that produced cheap but adequate oscilloscopes which they sold around the world. Then, one day they decided to remodel them to make them more appealing to their cousins in a land far away across the sea. This must have worked because a few years later one of their cousins, a Mr Tek Tronix, sailed all the way across the sea to England and bought the entire company!
Ahem, sorry!...... Meanwhile, back at the point.... I acquired a basket case of an early (pre '58 facelift) Serviscope which may be either an early S31 or a forerunner of it. This example had obviously done service as a parts mule prior to being stored carefully for a decade or two in the corner of a particularly wet and muddy field. After spending way more hours and money than it will ever be worth in a million years it is pretty much up and running and, as it is devoid of its case, I would like to find a picture so I can re-make a reasonable facsimile of it. In more detail, the thing is very close in both appearance and schematic to an S31. It is constructed in a point-to-point way with tag-strip and not a PCB in sight. The front panel is finished in silver (was once anyway!) hammer finish paint with white legends and black & white knobs. From the looks of it the case must have been a 5-sided box a la the S51 and was retained by two 1/4 turn fasteners on the rear panel. Some pix here: /g/TekScopes/album?id=42175 Please ignore the tacked-on components, they were just to get it going and will be replaced with more authentic looking parts shortly. The chassis mounted caps and selenium rectifiers have been hollowed out and re-filled already! From my use of google at least, information on Telequipment Ltd and its products prior to the product facelift and subsequent takeover seems scarce, most of the very little I know has been thanks to the VintageTek museum page and a link to the spring '67 article in TekTalk about the acquisition. Bob Haas and Dave Brown at VintageTek have been really helpful and burrowed around their archives but not found anything. I was wondering if anyone in this group may know, or could point me at, people who could help fill in the gap. Apart from anything else Telequipment is a bit of UK industrial history that should not be lost? ...and if you have been, thanks for reading! Best, Adrian |
