"Brian Gaff" wrote in message

I ask as I have an old cassette deck which they made that
needs a belt and have not heard of them of late.

They are very much in business. Try to google them?

Hitachi is actually a conglomerate of sorts. The cassette machine is a
product of a member of that conglomerate.

That all said, you may find that Hitachi no longer sells replacement parts,
and you may have to find a generic equivalent.