Canadian Craigslist Grafonola on wheels

[Damfino59]

After seeing La Cah’s post I wandered on Craigslist Canada and found this Columbia School machine?

https://abbotsford.craigslist.org/atq/d ... 86157.html

[Lah Ca]

It is in Abbotsford, which for the purposes of CL very loosely falls into Greater Vancouver, BC. It is, however, some distance away, out through the Fraser Valley, along Highway 1. It is not a suburb of Vancouver, but it is closes enough that some unfortunate souls commute from there.

The odd gramophone has been listed on and off for quite some time.

Here's a pic.

[fran604g]

School model? AKA "Pushmobile" it would seem. Image from Columbia Phonograph Companion Volume II, Robert W. Baumbach, Stationary X-Press, 1996.

[JohnM]

School model? AKA "Pushmobile" it would seem. Image from Columbia Phonograph Companion Volume II, Robert W. Baumbach, Stationary X-Press, 1996.
Pushmobile.jpg

Slightly different cabinets. Louvers are horizontal on one, vertical on the other, as well.

[epigramophone]

Having moved more than a few cabinet gramophones in my time, I can see the advantage of those big wheels.
Never mind school. Roll it into the garden to accompany afternoon tea on the terrace and impress (or annoy) the neighbours.