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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

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.

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

fran604g wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:07 am 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.

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.