View attachment 881239 View attachment 881234 ] So what are photographs of a British MG-B sports car dashboard doing on an Audiokarma forum page dedicated to the Garrard Lab 80?
Edmund W. Mortimer, Garrard's chief engineer and author of the book, The Garrard Story, wrote about going to the USA and riding with the sales manager of Garrard's USA importer British Industries Corporation. The BIC manager was driving his MG-B sports car, and said that he was impressed by the switches on the dashboard of the car, visible in the centre of the dashboard in the photo. Mortimer took note of the switches and they became the inspiration for Garrard's tab controls, which first appeared on the Lab 80 in 1964, disappeared for a couple of years (1968-69), and then reappeared in the SL95B, SL75B and SL72B and AP76/AP96, continuing in the Zero models, the Models 82, 86SB, 990B and others.