Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade

The thief carefully took the record off and left it behind. 

David Bowie or Englebert Humperdinck ?

@dover 

That reply to @richardbrand went right over my head…….

Englebert Humperdinck (real name Arnold Dorsey) lives just up the road from me in Devon, England. Shall l ask him if it was him?

Didn’t Terry O’Sullivan have something to do with Garrards as well? He was the manufacturer of Loricraft machines and I’m sure he also sold or refurbished Garrard decks. I had assumed SME acquired that side of things from him when he sold them Loricraft.

He was based a few miles from where I was born and grew up, both villages being close to the home of Garrard, Swindon. A very helpful man to deal with, as I found out when my Loricraft arrived with the pump loose inside: he encouraged me to take it apart and re-secure the pump to its base with four bolts. Turns out UPS had been throwing it about with all their usual care and attention.

PS I looked up the details. Terry bought the name whilst the S. Americans bought what was left of the business after Plessey had run it into the ground.

@dogberry

Yes it’s quite a complicated whose-who with the Garrard franchise over the years…

Swindon was in the past a great base for everything ‘round’

Great Western Railways and the train maintenance centre,

Garrard turntables,

And (notorious for unsuspecting visitors) the confusing ‘’Magic Roundabout’’

Americans will not ‘get’ the last part and the joke, but UK drivers who experience it for the first time know what a ride it can be !!

Not a very logical roundabout for the faint hearted and even more logical to avoid it!

I remember it well from my driving test!

Just next to it on the north side is the Plessey/Garrard factory - or was!