You can see why the audiophool types (and I used to be one) wouldn't touch a table that looks like this (and indeed, many others) because it looks "cheap" and too "Rube Goldberg" or "Heath Robinson" but hey, they get the job done, correctly and accurately - and that's all that matters.
BSR. They were sort of a last hurrah from them, it's a shame as they were slated here by the press in the UK which can't have done them any good where they were as well made and functional as a typical Japan turntable of the same sort of price. They ended up with plenty of names on them.
