Venner Electronics Modules

AFAIK the company is no longer there, the road is (and is better known as the A3). Not that that helps you much. A well-known germanium RF transistor.... Venner are farily well-known for control and measuremnt devices. Venner timeswitches, for example, were widely used for street lamp control [1]. My guess is that these modules, in particular the decade counter, were used in some kind fo DVM/frequency counter [2] [1] They had an amzing (if OT) think called a 'solar dial'. Not much thicker than a normal timeswithc dial, this thing had a star wheel that was flipped on one position by a pin on the timeswitch chassis once per revolution (day). there was a gear train built into the dial that caused a sleeve around the cetnral spindle to rotate once per year, and a pair of cams that moved the on and off levers so as to correct for the sunrise and sunset times. When used for streetlamp control you got lights that turned on and off at the right time. [2] Such things were around before transistors. Somewhere I have a _valved_ DVM [3], and HP made a valved frequency counter. I've got an article somwehre for a 10 it successive-approximation ADC, punching the output as 2 rows of 5 level paper tape, built from relays and a uniselector. The comparator is one of those sensitive moving-coil relays, for example [3] It was given to my school (the worst thing to do to any piece of historic equipment IMHO). It didn't work, the teachers couldn't see the point of it, and alas before I got to hear of it, some idiot had started raiding it for the precision resistors. I realised what it was before too much damage had been done, and managed ot get them to give it to me. But it's going to be a lot of work to get going again. -tony