Does anyone know anything about this machine?

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I wanted to add that the covering on the cabinet is in remarkable condition for an early 1930s portable. Usually the portables you find today have fabric with soiling, scrapes, and tears. Whoever had this took very good care of it.

Portable wind up gramophones were sold in the UK for a long time , the HMV 102 first made in 1930 ? was still available to buy in 1962 ! Many moons ago we met a guy who left University and joined HMV in 1962 his new job selling wind up gramophones ! He did it for six months and was told to sell all remaining machines as a job lot but they had to be sold to someone who would export them to sell outside tye UK , They ended up with an East end trader who shipped them to Africa !

I knew that portable wind-ups were sold across Europe and Asia well into the 1960s, but did not know the same model was manufactured for 30 years! The logo inside the lid on this one reminds me of the logo on US made Columbia machines of the late '20s. I wonder if the 1962 lot you spoke of are the ones whose motors ended up going into the earliest "crap-o-phones" of the '70s and '80s. Seems that I remember reading somewhere that a lot of late manufacture portables from Europe were cannibalized to make the now notorious replicas that you see at every flea market.

The HMV 102 went through many stages from 102 102 c .. to 102g or probably more refinements all the way ?