Ferguson television receiver, type 306T, 1956

Ferguson television receiver, type 306T, 1956. The Ferguson 306T has a 12 position turret-type tuner which incorporates fine-tuning by means of a concentric ring. It is an early example of the type of 405 line receiver that came onto the market with the introduction of Independent Television (ITV) in 1956. Prior to this, there had only been one television channel in the UK controlled by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a public service organisation. By the early 1960s more families than ever before had a television in their homes, and there were over 15 million sets in Britain. Ferguson were taken over by the Thorn-EMI empire, which later sold the brand to French-owned Thomson. Photographie ©SSPL/Science Museum