Yes that sounds about right. Just look at the cost of a house in the 1960s
compared to now. It is frightening, but we still needed to have a mortgage
back then.
I remember my hi fi, the various components were all priced in guineas, and
there was purchase tax of 25 percent.
Some things never change, Guineas were used in a similar way to the old
99.99 is these days, to make stuff look cheaper.

On the Avo though I found the leads tended to have short lives. Covered in a
rubber and with push on ends, one soon found that the wire inside could get
damaged. Mind you the treatment in the average TV factory was not exactly
careful, I have to say with them being dragged over sharp edges of steel
chassis etc.
Brian

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On 9 Nov 2020 15:17:00 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:57:01 -0800, whisky-dave wrote:

Just looking back at an old record of department purchases since 1957.
Tracked done one of our remaining AVO's 8 mk III and ,atching serial
number it seems we bought 6 of them for £128 in Aug 1966. So about £22
each.

Just found it interesting wonder how you would factor in inflation and
what they would be in todays money.

They were about £1000 from RS when they last sold them, as I recall. That
would be about 2008.

I bought a mint condition Mark 6 for about £90 a while ago.

According to:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator

that GBP22 would have been GBP412.93 in 2019 adjusting for inflation.

Nick