Strange one this, Dutch company, Canada made, and found in Italy. Just AM reception with 5 valves including rectifier valve. No mains transformer and made for 110 volt mains made it quite light and small but perhaps a little too deep. Radio dial looks like a car speedometer from the period, nice large number with zeros missing to save space, 55 meaning 550 Khz around 200 meters on Broadcast band as they called it in the US, but Medium Wave in Europe. Painted Bakelite is the build material, other models seen in brown and white.
the repair
The back was hanging off, made from carboard, as was the trend in those days, using just one fixing nut in the centre that had crumbled away. I glued that and added a plastic washer for more support, the sound output valve had the top broken off (vacuum escaped) so I ordered a new one, a
50C5 and added voltage dropping transformer to the centre of the back. One wire had fallen of the ferrite aerial and it soon started to work again.
The ferrite rod aerial is fixed to the back, removed her for repairing ease. The numbers on the tuning dial had faded away so I rubbed a white crayon over the putted shapes and wiped clean after.
When I received the radio it had a brown volume control knob that didn't look quite right, so I sprayed a nice gold colour to match the dial and that looked much better, a drop of cleaning fluid was added to the control pot and she all worked fine. I spayed the knob while a length of wire was attached do the spay went all around evenly, and I could hang it after to dry. I've given a un-restored image below.
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