HMV Automatic Model 15

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HMV Automatic Model 15

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The Model 15 was the all electric version of the HMV Automatic Model 1, and this period drawing shows how the complicated contraption worked :
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Thanks for the picture! Does anyone know if there are any surviving examples of these?
I've seen the acoustic model on Youtube.
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Re: HMV Automatic Model 15

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I love 'used record being lowered into receptacle for same'! In reality it's a terrifying crash which makes you wonder how people's expensive record collections weren't smashed to bits!

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bulleid_pacific wrote:I love 'used record being lowered into receptacle for same'! In reality it's a terrifying crash which makes you wonder how people's expensive record collections weren't smashed to bits!
Apparently the records survived ! A "cushion" of air stopped damage , UNLESS the record already had some damage , an edge chip cause havoc 1

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Re: HMV Automatic Model 15

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Here's a nice demo of the same changer in the acoustic HMV Automatic Number 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxWE31dY3CM&t=30s

The lift finger reject feature is similar to the 2nd Victor changer found in models such as the VE10-35.
I can't think that I've ever had a record damaged in mine.
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"Comparison is the thief of joy" Theodore Roosevelt

His Master's Voice Automatic 1A Exponential Gramophone Demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi70G1Rzqpo

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