I remember in the late '70s, when I was about 10, I got a child's portable record player for my Birthday that played 7" singles only and had a slot on the front, where you would push the record into the slot and it would play automatically.

The arm rigidly stayed in the correct position to allow it to be carried by a handle, like you would carry a small briefcase, while it played the single. I remember that it was mustard colour.

Did anyone, by any chance, have the same one as I did?

No but I saw them.

There's no way I would have let my records play on one. Can you imagine the force on the tone arm to work like that?

But then again I wouldn't let my records be played on anything other than a decent deck with a lightweight well balanced tone arm.

This link shows the kind of portable record player I am talking about, although I remember my one (even though mostly made out of plastic, as this one was) seemed quite well-made, this one looks very cheap in comparison. My one had a proper chrome metal handle.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=por...:0&tx=89&ty=79

I remember now, thinking about the dates properly, it must have been around 1975, which would mean that I would only have been about 6, or so, at the time, a bit early to have been worried about playing my 7" singles on it, and the possible damage it might have caused

I have searched the Internet, and I look on eBay from time-to-time, but cannot find the exact one I had. I would instantly recognise it if I saw it again. It is sentimental to me, as my late Nan bought it for me for my Birthday and, being the curious type even back then, after I had had it a couple of years, I decided to take it apart to see how it worked, and to look at the mechanism etc, but I couldn't put it back together again and I had to throw it away

It was the same sort of thing as a car record player from the 50s and 60s was; you put the record in a front loading slot , like a car cd player....I have a mate with a Humber Super Snipe who got one for an addition to his classic car to take to shows etc. I think his one is a K-B, or might be a Philips?

The classic car model was the Philips Auto-mignon

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips...gnon_mk60.html

I can still remember repairing them

A friend of mine in the early 70's had a Bush portable record player, just like a radio but a top loading slot to slip a 45 in.

Wouldn't touch one of those things... For the same reason, I always replaced the shitty sapphire stylus with a diamond one on ANY turntable I had...

Found it, at long last!

It was called a 'Lansay Corallo', made in Italy.

If you look online, there are many photos of it, but mainly in a Red colour. My one was definately in 'Mustard' colour (I still have the battery cover for it. Don't ask me why!)

I've found a single photo of it online, in 'Mustard' colour:

http://www.leboncoin.fr/image_son/412970363.htm


Better photos of it are posted online, but in the Red colour, such as this photo:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=lan...9,r:4,s:0,i:98


Happy memories