Baird query.

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If you look on Google, you'll find a site showing picturers of an experimental set built by John Logie Baird in the 1940's (he worked during the war on radar research). Called the telechrome, it combined a radio, automatic record player (phonograph) plus a dual standard television set that could receive the BBC 405 line b & w transmissions and his own experimental 600 line colour. It's well finished with a polished wood case, more like a pre-production model than a prototype. This set was shown to the public but vanished shortly arfter Bairds death; there's a story that RCA got their hands on it. Aparently it was a three colour system (not two) of his own design; there's a photo of it working showing a womans face. Colour's quite good; a bit like early Technicolor. There's not much information about early British colour television; up until the mid 1950's the BBC was the only company (later Corporation) allowed to broadcast either radio or telivision in the UK and Baird had a major falling out with them; he felt that they did not give his first pre-war television system a fair chance. The problem with the BBC is even now, it's run by people with long memories. If in their eyes Baird offended against them, they would not forgive him or give him due credit for his work............ Jim.