Spear Records
See also Spear Products. Spear Electronics of Bridgeport, Connecticut, manufactured phonographs for children. These were usually sold with a selection of their own company-branded records. Lionel, the toy train company, acquired Spear in 1961 and began to sell phonographs and records branded as Lionel products, including, in 1964, a new combination record player/slide projector called Phono-Vision. See Lionel Records. Though Lionel had planned to introduce many new audio products and establish "Lionel Music Centers" in department stores and hobby shops, this did not happen. In 1969, the Spear phonograph operation within Lionel was closed down.