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early Brake from a Gramophone Company machine ?

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:53 am
by soundgen
early Brake from a Gramophone Company machine ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233720328717

Re: early Brake from a Gramophone Company machine ?

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:41 am
by epigramophone
It is an HMV Quadrant brake, c.1915 onwards according to "His Master's Gramophone", where one is pictured on page 255.

Re: early Brake from a Gramophone Company machine ?

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:19 pm
by JerryVan
They were used in the USA too.

Re: early Brake from a Gramophone Company machine ?

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:16 am
by Inigo
Someone in this forum was enquiring about a missing brake that could be this one... He had a motorboard with holes for a brake like this one...