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Unusual HMV portable ?
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:06 am
by poodling around
I don't think I have seen this model before.
Can anyone identify it I wonder ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/French-HMV-p ... f&LH_All=1
Re: Unusual HMV portable ?
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:35 am
by epigramophone
The design is similar to some Pathé portables, which makes sense as Pathé's UK branch was acquired by Columbia in 1928 and therefore became part of EMI in 1931. According to the Guinness Book of Recorded Sound, Pathé continued to operate semi-autonomously into the stereo era, so it is not surprising to see what looks like a Pathé portable wearing an HMV lid transfer.
Re: Unusual HMV portable ?
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:49 am
by poodling around
epigramophone wrote:The design is similar to some Pathé portables, which makes sense as Pathé's UK branch was acquired by Columbia in 1928 and therefore became part of EMI in 1931. According to the Guinness Book of Recorded Sound, Pathé continued to operate semi-autonomously into the stereo era, so it is not surprising to see what looks like a Pathé portable wearing an HMV lid transfer.
Very interesting indeed epigramophone.
Re: Unusual HMV portable ?
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:29 pm
by Inigo
It's the French version of later small portables.