Anybody heard of Girard turntables?

Response34...Of course, yours is a changer...not a single-play TT. The TT I had as my first system looked very similar, but without the nice wood base. One had to furnish your own base. Many times the TT was mounted in a console, and you just had to make the correct cutout and holes for the suspension springs.

Garrard came up with an interesting concept for a click-and-pop eliminator. The device never got into mass production. The idea was to do the processing on the raw signal from the cartridge, before the RIAA equalization that rolls off highs (making the job more difficult). The device was in the form of an outboard phono preamp with the noise reduction as an extra feature.