[Gllug] bulk tape eraser sought - central London Area

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 18:14 +0000, John Winters wrote:
> tid wrote:
> > 2008/11/19 John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>:
> >> Come on, be creative now.
> > 
> > There used to be a rumor that carrying tapes on the old district line
> > trains would erase them due to
> > large electromagnets used for braking. He could try that.
> 
> I don't imagine that the above is true for a minute (you need a strong
> field at very close range) but when I worked for GEC in the early
> eighties we were forbidden to travel on underground trains whilst
> carrying tapes.

Similarly, in my BBC days, we were not allowed to take our test tapes on
the tube.  When we were sent to an outlying location (Golders Green
Hippodrome, The Paris Theatre, Buckingham Palace, Parliament and so on),
we were always sent by taxi.  It was fun telling a taxi driver that you
were going to Buckingham Palace!

Chris

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