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This little recorder is very rare, these battery operated
vale driven tape recorders were unique, EMI brought these out for filed
recordings and proved to be very popular with the likes of the BBC and
the famous David Attenborough, these battery operated machines were much
more manageable compared to the large mains driven EMI machines or the
12V Leevers rich recorders of their days. The design of this recorder
was very popular, once the stable transistor had come out the released
this recorder as the R321 which offered better battery life, the valve
machines require two 67.1/2 volt HT batteries and 8 X D-cells making it
a heavy little recorder.
These machines had a power saving system were you have a hand
crack rewind system, another battery saving technique was to remove the
erase head, though you can not use a used tape on this machine for
recording, the machine would record fine onto blank tape, using a record
head and a seperate replay head which makes this machine quite unique.
Below you will see pictures of the recorder for sale, click on the
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