![]() Lenco's calling card was an idler-drive system with two distinctions: Rather than driving the inner rim of the record platter with a horizontal idler wheel, every Lenco model used a vertically oriented wheel to contact the platter's underside and every model eschewed a stepped motor pulley in favor of one far longer than average, yet smoothly tapered from near to far ends. but that's another story for another day. Then, almost as swiftly, Lenco went from having three factories in two countries to vanishing from the scene with scarcely a trace. Thanks in equal parts to Fritz's engineering talents and Marie's business acumen—her idea to sell turntables through a popular book-and-record club is remembered as the company's turnaround point—Lenco swiftly became one of the most successful and well-regarded makers of hi-fi turntables through the 1960s and early '70s. Swiss Precision: The Story of the Thorens TD 124 and Other Classic Turntables (2007), by Joachim Bung (reviewed in April 2008) also tells the story of Fritz and Marie Laeng, the couple who founded Lenco, Switzerland's other turntable company.
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