Carol 100 LW & MW Radio (1960)

I found this on line last week, and I brought it. It's got me very confused as I can't find another example on the planet. On front it had Carol 100 or even might be Carol Loo? It's quite unique in a couple of ways; it only has two controls, but had MW & LW normally that needs an extra switch & the shape is different than any other I've seen. The band switch is combined with the tuning, if you twist it past the end it changes the band (took me ages to work that out, lol). It has '1 May 1960' rubber stamped in it, and all the parts are UK made.

The inside is well spaced, even some spare room, speaker is a square type about 3 inches across, no tone control or ear socket, just basic really

The repair

It arrived with the ferrite rod lose in the cabinet and all the tuning coils detached. The only writing inside the cabinet is the date, no model number or serial number, it may have been a company market test model that never got reproduced in any quantity, I don't know anything really?

I switched to medium wave and found a signal, then I carefully moved the MW coil for loudest reception, the same with LW and car aerial coil I fitted in the center of the rod. With a ring of wire attached to the aerial coil I fixed the rod to the rear of the ganged tuning capacitor. Switch cleaner was applied to the band switch, volume pot was fine. I replaced the 9 volt  PP9 battery terminals with a modern much smaller PP3 type. The reception was strong on both bands, I found two brass screws to hold the two hinged halves of the cabinet together and she was a runner. 

paint had worn down on the volume display

gold discs were missing on both knobs

The transistors are of the GET variety (never had a faulty on of them yet)  and electrolytic's of the Plessey type so also fine. There is a little window in the bottom part of the tuning dial that shows blue for LW and silver for MW, quite hard to see, I may add a LED light at a later date. Sorry no circuit can be found or record of it even existing, please do let me know if you find another.

Cosmetics

Not a great deal wrong here, just added two gold discs to the centers of the two front knobs, a little red paint had worn away from the volume window, some corrosion removed from the aerial socket on the side, two small blobs of white paint removed and all was done. A nice design touch was to add two clear outer discs around the controls to keep the body fabric clean. She's a lovely looking radio and one that will get a special place in my ever growing collection.