Hi Terry
ITT normally identified items sold in the UK with the country of origin, but often this may only be a sticky label and they are sometimes missing.
This music centre is an interesting hybrid of names, but I have no evidence to suggest that the parts are not all original to the machine.
I think the most convincing evidence that it was not intended for the UK market was the mains lead wire colours.
I have attached a better photo of the dial, which does not give much support to it being intended for UK consumers.
Another interesting item is the 4 pin DIN used for the headphone socket, Michael W. thinks these were mainly used on German stuff.
Most of the ITT-KB items containing cassette recorders were made in Japan or Taiwan.
But I have two other ITT music centres, a KA2030 which does not have any country of origin, and a MC22 which has a small label identifying it as made in Malta.
Although it is interesting to note the address of ITT on the label on the rear panel of the MC22, which I believe is the last known address for ITT-KB in the UK, and was almost certainly part of the old STC factory.
All in all I suspect this item, the ITT 7101 has been bought into the country privately.
The service information for the ITT 7100 (note this is a 7101) is on line on a Dutch web site. https://freeservicemanuals.info/en/servi...ompact.pdf
Mike
ITT normally identified items sold in the UK with the country of origin, but often this may only be a sticky label and they are sometimes missing.
This music centre is an interesting hybrid of names, but I have no evidence to suggest that the parts are not all original to the machine.
I think the most convincing evidence that it was not intended for the UK market was the mains lead wire colours.
I have attached a better photo of the dial, which does not give much support to it being intended for UK consumers.
Another interesting item is the 4 pin DIN used for the headphone socket, Michael W. thinks these were mainly used on German stuff.
Most of the ITT-KB items containing cassette recorders were made in Japan or Taiwan.
But I have two other ITT music centres, a KA2030 which does not have any country of origin, and a MC22 which has a small label identifying it as made in Malta.
Although it is interesting to note the address of ITT on the label on the rear panel of the MC22, which I believe is the last known address for ITT-KB in the UK, and was almost certainly part of the old STC factory.
All in all I suspect this item, the ITT 7101 has been bought into the country privately.
The service information for the ITT 7100 (note this is a 7101) is on line on a Dutch web site. https://freeservicemanuals.info/en/servi...ompact.pdf
Mike
