Brooks Automatic Repeating Phonograph

In 1918, as the Victor patents expired, everybody and his brother attempted to enter the Victrola business. A new participant needed something to distinguish his product from his competitor, and the Brooks Manufacturing Company of Saginaw, Michigan was one of the few to fit their instrument with a repeating attachment.

Brooks advertised that their automatic repeating phonograph would play any kind of record, any number of times. A dial on the machine allowed the operator to select up to nine plays, or continous play.

The non-descript oak case gave no clue that anything unusual was contained inside.
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Details of the repeating mechanism with the turntable removed.
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Tabletop version of the Brooks.

Decal and tonearm of the tabletop Brooks.

Lynn Bilton
Box 435
Randolph,OH 44265
330 325-7866

We buy, sell, and repair antique phonographs and music boxes.

Pick-up and delivery possible in many parts of the midwest, south, and northeast.