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I recently met Steve Burke - Hare who is a Mortuary Manager and Medical Enbalmer with a penchant for valves.   Steve has engaged the talent of Monika, a Polish tattoo artist working from a studio in Macclesfield to illustrate his devotion to the thermionic cult.     Here you can see Monika at work and Mrs. Mullard Magic is a little in awe of Monika as she likes the idea of ladies inflicting pain and discomfort on a man: -  And now, you can see the fruits of her labours and I think you will agree, the results, in...

Hi everybody, and a very warm welcome to the new-look Mullard Antiques Online Shop!

You may recognise the Mullard name and logos from our existing online shops Mullard Magic and Mullard Antiques and Collectibles. 

Mullard Magic specialises in vintage radio accessories, vintage valves or tubes, components, military radios and equipment.

Mullard Antiques specialises in the unusual. We offer a wide range of vintage and quirky items for all sorts of collectors and home improvers; from pottery, vintage technology,  vintage lamps and lighting, clocks and watches, militaria, vintage radios, transport and automobilia,jewellery, vintage books, vintage photography and imaging, vintage toys and games, artwork and signage, and much more! 

You can read more about this Noval based output pentode on one of my valve product pages but here, today we have an excerpt from a Mullard 1954 press release extolling the vital statistics of this versatile and today much loved device: - 

We have had a run on stabiliser devices recently, so I thought it was perhaps time to write a blog article about how these work.   Interestingly, they are not a valve in the true sense as they do not amplify but rather find use in maintaining steady DC voltages in power supplies where mains supply variations occur or within circuits where a reliable reference voltage is required for operation. The simplest form of voltage stabiliser consists of a rod anode surrounded by a cylindrical cathode which are mounted within a glass bulb which has an atmosphere containing a single...

When Band III TV was introduced in Britain early in 1954, Mullard heralded in the new age by having a range of valves available for the new receivers some two weeks after the British Government's TV policy had been confirmed in the House of Commons. Here, we see Timothy Bustard, a Toolmaker at Mullard's Mitcham factory hand finishing a new anode making tool for the PCF80 triode-pentode valve which acted as a frequency changer for Band III TV transmissions. The tool is used in a press where nickel sheet is fed into the press and seven successive operations of punching...