Pye B16T television receiver, c 1946

Pye B16T television receiver, c 1946. The B16T was Pye's first post-war television set, and sold at £35.09d. Pye were the only company to offer a new design of TV in time for the re-start of television in the UK after the war. The other sets available at the time (and there were very few of them) were all pre-war design (sometimes put in a different cabinet to make them look new). As early as 1941 Pye had a theoretical design for a post-war television using a new type of valve which formed the heart of the UKs wartime radar receivers and in 1943 members of their radar team discreetly began work on a post-war television. This work gave Pye a development lead over other manufacturers, enabling them not only to be the only manufacturer able to offer an all-new television design (the model B16T) but also release it a full two months before regular transmissions resumed. Photographie. ©SSPL/National Media Museum