Avo Collection

Keith Wicks

if anyone knows where this picture came from, I’d appreciate having the information.

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Avo Collection

Geoff Fletcher

They all look very happy if you turn the pic upside down.

     

Happy AVOs

Keith Wicks

Happy avo talking

Dave Plowman

Crikey. Where there really that many versions of the ‘large’ AVO?

Keith Wicks

I think this is just a collection of some of the many varieties. I don’t know much about the large type (I have a smaller AVO 12D 81/1, ex-Post Office).

Geoff Fletcher

In my pre BBC days I used the big ones a lot when working in the R&D labs at GEC Wyton back in 1961 –  1963. A nice piece of kit.

Dave Plowman

They were still on sale new up until recently – and may still be. At something like 600 quid. A bit like a 4038 mic – something every collector of such things has to have.  

I’ve got one (Model 8) – in its beautiful real leather case. Not actually used, since a 3 quid DVM is more accurate.

 

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