Another trawl through gumtree last night and this TT was listed,i emailed and the seller called me and explained it was a present for his daughter given to her by a guy who worked at townsends in 1987.

She wasn't into vinyl and didn't know what to do with it,so its been up in her fathers loft ever since.
He said its been used only a few times and looking at the condition id say hes right.
It has a Mission LC tonearm on it,(shame it wasnt an Excalibur!).
I collected it from walton on thames and apparently the townsend factory is not far away.
It has the original box with tools and bottles of bearing oil and damping fluid.

Anyone know anything about the cartridge?

First thing tomorrow morning i'll be bunging the alphason on it!