Baird Model C 'Noah's Ark' televisor, 1928. About 12 of these television receivers were made originally, with the Model C versions priced at £150. Model C's included a wooden base which contained two radio receivers. (None of these wooden bases are known to have survived). This particular example has had several internal modifications, including a non-original disc, what appears to be a non-original motor, and a non-original lamp housing. No lamp is present, although the Bakelite socket is still there. The loudspeaker is missing, and the grill cloth is not original.

It was used as a demo unit in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the glass slide of a church-like building, which is secured by two metal clips onto the front of the lamp housing. Similarly, the 'View Here' and '30-Line' labels above and below the viewing lens were added some time between 1953 and 1992. One of the two rear doors has become detached due to damage to the main cabinet near one of the hinges, but we still have the door.

A photograph dating from late July 1953 shows this particular set with Margaret and Malcolm Baird, at which time Malcolm Baird was 18 and Mrs. Baird was 46. They were in London for the unveiling of a plaque at Kingsbury Manor near Wembley, where the Baird company had a receiver and transmitter in the late 1920s.

This Model C, apparently having appeared in corporate trade displays since, may have eventually ended up with Radio Rentals in their short-lived museum at their headquarters in Swindon in the early 1980s, before finding its way into Science Museum Collection 301 with the demise of Radio Rentals.