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A Ministry of Supply HMV 102 in black, with the extra instruction plate, needle pack holder etc. Government inventory details stenciled to underside of cabinet. £150

Please ask for pictures if you are interested. I'm in the UK.

The machine can be shipped at cost.

Thanks for looking.
Neil

Unused examples from this batch of 102's were sold through Army Surplus shops well into the 1960's, and I bought one in 1965 for £5.

With the benefit of hindsight I should have bought the entire stock, but I had different priorities in those days. I was saving up for my first car.

Today the 102 is the portable everyone seems to want, so I am sure yours will sell well.

Thanks - I assumed that the Government had sold them off at some point, but didn't know when. A fiver was a not inconsiderable sum in the 1960s, but even so that sounds like a bargain. I shouldn't be parting with it, but I'm moving house and less is what I need more of!

Now sold.

Thanks again Neil. I am, as the kids say, stoked.