# Top loader

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**Top loader**, **toploader**, or **top-loader** may refer to:

- [Toploader](/source/Toploader), an English alternative rock band from Eastbourne formed in 1997

- *[Top Loader](/source/Top_Loader)*, a 1993 album by Sugarsmack

- [Ford Toploader transmission](/source/Ford_Toploader_transmission), a manually shifted three and four speed gearbox introduced in 1964 by the Ford Motor Company

- a rigid, plastic [card protector](/source/Card_sleeve)

The term **top loader** may also be used to distinguish versions of machines with the loading mechanism at the top from other configurations (e.g. front-loading):-

- [Nintendo Entertainment System (Model NES-101)](/source/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_(Model_NES-101)) (also known as the *Top loader*), a redesign of the NES game console named for its modified cartridge mechanism

- [Videocassette recorders](/source/Videocassette_recorder) with the cassette-loading mechanism on the top surface

- [Top-loading washing machine](/source/Top-loading_washing_machine), a washing machine design

## See also

- [Loader (equipment)](/source/Loader_(equipment))

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