Now I tried the small reel on my larger home-based recorder to find to my dismay that the speeds were totally different so my recording was reproduced much slower than it had been recorded ----- so I played back on the little player, recording the sound using the microphone attached to the big one....Reproduction lost a bit but it was acceptable and this is how I would transfer my recordings..
So it was packed and I took it to TT 1963 to try it out......It worked fine and I used up a few tapes. labelling the boxes in which they had been bought so I could idendify what I had recorded..
. I needed a few extra batteries (they didn't last long) and bought them on my way up to the paddock and had just loaded the brand new batteries when we heard that Jack Ahearne had done a Ton lap in the practice which had just finished, splitting the MV ridden by Mike Hailwood and the Scuderia Gileras ridden by John Hartle and Phil Read.
I was first on the scene to catch Jack as he returned his Norton to his van after his special lap.....