Did Anyone

[Teapots1]

Have a TV with a coin slot meter on the back, that's how one paid the rental. Someone called to empty it every month, anything above the rental was refunded back to you.

[zebo]

We never had one but I do seem to recall them, wasn't that how Radio Rentals started out?

[Tilly2]

We did, early sixties.

[Teapots1]

RR rigs a bell Zebo, you still had to find a deposit before they would bring one out to you.

[Teapots1]

^^^ rings^^^

[Tilly2]

Ours was a Grenada TV.

[MargoTester]

We didn't have one with a coin box but we couldn't afford a colour TV when they first came out so we rented one.

[Teapots1]

I think the coin TVs came into operation if you had rented one previously and failed to pay the rental.

[MargoTester]

https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/1975-multibroadcast-7773/

These were the people we rented from and looks very much like the telly we had - we thought we were the bees knees

[Teapots1]

So funny to see that MT, but I'm sorry not the bees knees. Posh people had the ones in big solid wooden cabinets. :0))))

[Bazile]

Yes we did when we were children

T C Hayes the rental company , I think it was

[Tilly2]

No Teapots, we never faltered on our payments.

[MargoTester]

Very true Teapots, I'd forgotten those some of them were huge

[douglas9401]

I remember DER on our high street but I'm getting on now. :-)

[MargoTester]

Do you remember when the first 'remote' controls came out? They plugged into the telly on a length of flex that you kept tripping over.

[Barsel]

We rented a TV from Redifusion so dad could watch the football and a radio for my bedroom so I could listen to Radio Luxembourg.

[barry1010]

Usually the cost of the TV licence was included in the rental, too. My sister had a coin slot tv when she first married, also slit meters for her gas and electric

[Peter Pedant]

color tellies were around £300 when they came out
(only the Germans were capable of the precision engineering for the colour tube - I think the mesh had to accurate to a micron and English engineering could only do 10)

which were around £3000 now

[Teapots1]

I remember my dad finding a way to fiddle the coin slot by putting the same 2 shilling in. There was a big gap between the collection box at the bottom of the coin slot, he use to cut some cardboard from a corn flakes box and slide it into the gap, put the coin through the slot and catch it on the cardboard and pull it out again. Providing the coin went into the slot it would register more time. :0)))))

[Peter Pedant]

I remember shilling in the meter for gas.
Phys O level ( the abbo) had a section on how they worked - very wide paddles ( 'big' meter) because of low driving pressure.
Dont complain about a noisy meter, you got more gas for the shilling!

[bhg481]

I don't recall the licence fee being included in the rental. We rented our first TV but already had a radio, so just upgraded the licence.