Portable phonograph brand pulvel midget

[morgantheavenger]

My buddy's freind has this interesting portable phonograph I wanted to know the history behind this company has I've tried searching the web and can't get anything on this company thanks everyone.

[Joe_DS]

Looking carefully at the logo, it's actually Pulwel. The "W" looks very much like a "V". But even that was little help. I spotted only one reference in Google Books, but it's a snippet view so I can't access it. Making things more confusing, they spelled it "Pulwell." See: http://books.google.com/books?id=W2o5AQ ... CCsQ6AEwAA

I did spot an ad for Pulwel Motors -- Page 58, March 1927, Talking Machine World, Volume 23(a) -- https://archive.org/stream/talkingmachi ... rch/Pulwel

My guess is that this is a low-end Canadian model, circa 1929-1931, made by or sold by Pollock-Welker.

Joe

[phononut]

Hello
I have the same machine! Kind of a dinky cheap machine, with a one spring motor and a cheap soundbox. Pollock-Welker made several portables. Another portable Pollock-Welker I have is the "Comrade", a more significant machine. I would guess this was probably their cheapest model
Regards
Brad

[morgantheavenger]

Thanks guys