This page contains a selection of scanned technical and historic documents that should be of interest to vintage radio collectors etc.
Contributions are always welcomed. Please email 'paul (at) vintage-radio (dot) info' if you have anything suitable.

Most of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To view these you will need the free Adobe Reader.

Technical Documents

Title	Publication and Copyright Details	File Type	File Size
Radio and Television Servicing Cumulative Index 1952-1986	Radio and Television Servicing 1986		1.97MB
Aligning Without Instruments	Practical Wireless May 1959		501kB
Radio Repair Questions and Answers by Les Lawry-Johns	Newnes Technical Books 1979		2.59MB
The Evolution of Audio Amplifier Design by John Linsley-Hood	Electronics in Action February to June 1994		3.48MB
77 Selected Circuits	The Wireless Constructor early 1930s?		3.55MB
Fault Finding in Receivers	The Wireless Trader September to October 1936		683kB
The Magic Lamp by Pete Roberts	Everyday Electronics September 1989		2.03MB
The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope: Its uses as an aid to Radio Service by W E Miller	The Wireless & Electrical Trader February 1944		2.98MB
Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries by F. E. Newing B.Sc & Richard Bowood	A Ladybird Junior Science Book First Published 1962		14.1MB
How it Works - The Computer by Bavid Carey	Ladybird Books First Published 1971		8.55MB
UK Telephone Socket Information	Unknown		4.1MB

More coming soon....

Component and Equipment Data

Title	Publication and Copyright Details	File Type	File Size
CRT Tester and Rejuvenator with accompanying notes	Practical Television, December 1957 Accompanying notes by John Wakely, 2005		211kB
Choosing Resistors	Practical Wireless December, 1959		611kB
IF Values for Superhet Alignment	The Wireless & Electrical Trader 1940 (Trader sheets 453, 467 and 469)		676kB
American Midgets	The Wireless & Electrical Trader 1942 (Trader sheets 589 and 590)		1.5MB
Battery Equivalents Chart	Newnes Radio and Television Servicing 1959 - 1960		124kB
Radio and Television Pocket Book compiled by B Babini	Bernards Radio Series No 120 date unknown		2.21MB
AM03 AM Modulator Description and Instructions	Geoff Hopkins		45kB

More coming soon....

Historic and General Interest Documents

Title	Publication and Copyright Details	File Type	File Size
Hacker Radio Geoffrey Dixon-Nuttall & Gordon Bussey	G D N Publications 1993		3.7MB
Story of Defiants	Co-operative News July 1991		626kB
Colossus, The Valve Based Codebreaker	New Electronics January 2001		5.12MB
The Story of Radio by Glyn Worsnip	BBC Radio Show Guidebook October 1988		16.4MB
The Fascination of Vintage Radio by Geoff Arnold	Maplin Magazine December 1992 to March 1993		13MB
The Story of Radio by Graham Dixey	Maplin Electronics date unknown		20.5MB
50 Years of Progress Wireless World Golden Jubilee Edition	Wireless World April 1961		7.57MB

More coming soon....

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