This trader advert from July 1951 pre-announces the handsome new 12" screen black and white TV.  With art deco type pillars either side of the screen this was definitely News!

News!

Embedded in the various news articles is the text:

Via a Post Office Telegram: To Messrs Scophony-Baird, Launcelot Road, Wembley, Middlesex.  Prototype of new 12 inch table television received P 167 Excellent as expected please hurry delivery good sale assured * T V Linnell and Son Ltd 15 Moorfield Rd Orpington-Kent *

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New Baird "Twelve" receiver (12" table model) to be released shortly.