Acc.12724 October 2007
Inventory
Acc.12724
John Logie Baird
National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected]
© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Papers, mainly photocopies, collected by Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird for research for their biography John Logie Baird; a life, NMS Publishing Ltd, 2002
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Presented, 2007
1. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1924-1934 2. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1935-2001, n.d. 3-13. Personal documents and personalities 14-15. JLB business and technical 16. Patents lodged by JLB or relating to his work 17-24 BBC and related documentation 25. Documents relating to JLB in Hastings 1923-1924 26. Hastings letters 27. Falkirk connection 28. Press cuttings 29. Photographs 30-32. CD/Video 33-36. Cassette tapes 37. Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird, John Logie Baird; a life, NMS Publishing Ltd, 2002
1. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1924-1934
Discussion following the reading of A A Campbell Swinton’s paper to the Radio Society of Great Britain, “The Possibilities of Television with Wire and Wireless”, 26 March 1924 F H Robinson, “The Radio Kinema”, Kinematograph Weekly, 3 April 1924 F H Robinson, “Radio Television”, Broadcaster and Wireless Retailer, April 1924 J L Baird, “An Account of Some Experiments in Television”, Wireless World and Radio Review, 7 May 1924 (plus further copy annotated by Ray Herbert) “Television: the problem of seeing at a distance -- how near is it?”, Sphere, 10 May 1924 E G Stewart, “Television”, report for the Gas, Light, and Coke Company on a private visit to JLB’s laboratory, 1926 J L Baird, “Television”, Experimental Wireless & the Wireless Engineer, December 1926 (extract annotated by Ray Herbert) J L Baird, “Television”, Journal of Scientific Instruments, vol. 38 April 1927, lecture delivered 6 January 1927 Nature, 15 January 1927, editorial on preceding; 29 January 1927, reply by JLB, and editor’s comment “Seeing Across the Atlantic”, supplement to Television, March 1928 “Transatlantic Television” and “Television in mid-Atlantic”, Television, April 1928 W C Fox, “A Love of Scientific Adventure: and where it leads”, Television, April 1928 Television Society, “Report of First General Meeting”, Television, June 1928 “The Baird Television System in America”, Television, July 1928 Dr J A Fleming, “Daylight Television -- a remarkable advance” and “The Inventor of the ‘Fleming Valve’ visits the now World-Famous Baird Laboratory”, Television, July 1928 “Daylight Television: a new Baird system”, Popular Wireless, 4 August 1928 Professor Cheshire, “Stereoscopic Vision”, Television, September 1928 Denison A Verne, “The Stereoscopic Televisor”, Television, September 1928 Lt-Col. Chetwode Crawley, “Navigation by Invisible Rays”, Television, October 1928 Noel Swanne, “This Television”, Television, November 1928 “Baird Television As We Last Saw It: some remarkable developments”, Amateur Wireless, 22 December 1928 (annotated by Ray Herbert) Sydney A Moseley, “At Last!”, Television, March 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The First Television Broadcast”, Television, May 1929 Cecil Malone MP, “The Future Developments of Television”, Television, May 1929 “Engineer”, “Television Proves Itself: news of the Post Office demonstration”, Television, May 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Writes from Berlin”, Television, June 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Writes from Berlin”, Television, July 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “And the Hidden Hand”, Television, August 1929 “An ‘Eye’ for Ships: remarkable new invention renders fog transparent”, Television, September 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The New Offer to Baird”, Television, September 1929 “Talking Films by Television”, Television, September 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The Future of Television”, Television, October 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Replies to Captain Eckersley”, Television, December 1929 “Sydney A Moseley on a New Richmond”, Television, December 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “More Facilities”, Television, January 1930 Sir Ambrose Fleming, “Television: present and future”, lecture at Annual Exhibition of Apparatus by Physical and Optical Societies of London, Imperial College of Science 9 January 1930, Television, February 1930 Sydney A. Moseley, “Is Television in Danger?”, Television, February 1930 “Those Ghost Images”, Television, November 1930 Harold Bradly, “Studio Topics” (Television Screen News), Television, November 1930 Professor E V Appleton, “The Timing of Wireless Echoes: the use of television and picture transmission”, Wireless World, 14 January 1931 (annotated by Dr P Waddell) Sydney A Moseley, “One More Epoch”, Television, January 1931 “Remarkable Results in Latest Competition”, Television, January 1931 Sydney A Moseley, “What is America’s Game?”, Television, March 1931 “First Newspaper Interview by Television: Mrs Snowden, at Home, Seen and Heard in the ‘Daily Herald’ Editor’s Room”, Television, June 1931 (reprinted from Daily Herald, 14 May 1931) “Studio Topics”, Television, June 1931 Sydney A Moseley, “Televising the Derby”, Television, July 1931 “Television on an Express Train”, Television, March 1932 “Derby Thrills by Television: an historic transmission”, Television, June 1932 “The BBC ‘First Night’”, Television, September 1932 “‘News’ by Television: the Baird process”, Television, October 1932 Archibald Church, “Recent Developments in Television”, paper read at British Association meeting, Nature, 30 September 1933 Royal Society of Arts, discussion following lecture by J C Wilson on colour television, JLB in the chair, 29 June 1934
2. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1935-2001, n.d.
The Television Committee, “Report”, January 1935 Capt. A G D West, “A Practical Outline of Television”, Television and Short-Wave World, August 1935 “Talks with Great Scots, I -- J L Baird”, Scotland, Summer 1936 “Television”, from A Guide to Amateur Radio, 1936 Sarnoff, David, “Television: comparative status in England and the USA”, Wireless World, 29 October 1937 Wireless World 29 October and 11 November 1937, correspondence “Television in Colour”, Electronics and Television and Short-Wave World, April 1947 “Radar Pre-History”, Wireless World December 1945 J D Percy, “The Founding of British Television”, Television Society Memorial Paper, March 1950 P P Eckersley, “The Achievement and Failure of John Logie Baird”, Electronics and Power, April 1962 (plus letter from P V Reveley in September issue) Letters to the Editor, Electronics and Power, December 1975, February and April 1976 Maurice Exwood, “John Logie Baird: 50 Years of Television”, IERE History of Television Monograph, 1976 P Waddell, W V Smith, and J Sanderson, “The Activities of the Pioneer of Television between 1925 and 1928”, Wireless World, January 1976 Maurice Exwood, “The Births of Television”, Radio and Electronic Engineer, December 1976, annotated by Ray Herbert Donald Flamm, “Baird in America: what was and what might have been”, Television, March/April 1981 Richard B Head, letter (September 1981) and report of demonstration by JLB of stereoscopic television in December 1941 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, August 1984 Donald Flamm, “Baird’s Proper Place in Television History”, address at Council and Fellows Dinner, Arts Club, 11 September 1984 Ray Herbert, “Historic Baird TV Transmissions from Aircraft”, Television, March/April 1987 A E Sayers, “To Whom It May Concern” (1989), reminiscence of the Baird company pre-war and post-war T H Bridgewater, “Just a Few Lines: the birth and infant years of BBC Television”, supplement to the Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society, 1992 Herbert, Ray, “People of the Palace -- John Logie Baird”, Crystal Palace Matters, Issue 6, Winter 1994 (annotated by the author) Michael Buckland, “Emanuel Goldberg, Television & Zeiss Ikon”, from Zeiss Ikon and Television: Fernseh, 1995 Adrian R Hills, “Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television”, Kinema, Spring 1996 Ray Herbert, “G2TV: the first television transmitting station”, for Radio Society of Great Britain, 13 May 1996 Herbert, Ray, “Radio Amateurs and Early Television”, Radio Communication, October 1996 Ray Herbert, “The Viseotelephone”, British Vintage Wireless Society Bulletin, vol. 22, no 1, 1997 Andrew Emmerson, “Rewriting History”, Electronics World, November 1998 Professor R W Burns, “Restoring Baird’s Image”, IEE History of Technology Meeting Report, October 1999 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, December 1999 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, December 2000 Richard B Head, “The Power Station Affair”, handwritten note 2001 Ray Herbert, “75 Years of Television”, 3 February 2001 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, October 2001 Ray Herbert, “John Logie Baird Limited”, nd Adrian Hills, “The Baird Holding and Development Trust”, nd
3-13. Personal documents and personalities 3. JLB’s family Family portraits (3 sheets) Correspondence with Paul Singleton 2001, occupant of The Lodge (15 sheets) Documents relating to his mother’s death (6 sheets) Extracts from diaries of Annie Baird and press cutting (6 sheets)
4. JLB Documents relating to his health problems (3 sheets) College writings (5 sheets) Documents relating to his situation in WWI (1 sheet) “Alice, where art Thou”, words and music (1 sheet) Driving licence (1919--1920) and history of his motorcycle (2 sheets) Correspondence and documentation relating to Tunbridge Wells (9 sheets) Bank and related records 1928--1944 (12 sheets), with note by MHIB (1 sheet) Letter from RSA confirming JLB’s election to the fellowship in 1929 (2 sheets) Documents relating to JLB’s military service, including copy of original statement by James Heath, inventory of Heath’s estate, and correspondence from Ministry of Defence, Royal Signals Museum, Sir John Keegan, and Trevor Royle (14 sheets) Correspondence with Royal Society of Edinburgh regarding JLB’s election in 1937 (1 sheet) List of names and phone numbers in JLB’s diary 1940--1946 (5 sheets) Will (1 sheet) Death certificate (1 sheet) Probate (1 sheet) Obituaries and memorial (11 sheets) Letter relating to 1 Station Road, Bexhill (2 sheets) Correspondence with Harry Traynor and other documents relating to JLB museum appeal fund 1957 (11 sheets)
5-8. JLB notebooks, diaries 5. Cash book 1920 (13 sheets)
6. Notebook 1921 (45 sheets plus 9 sheets of notes by MHIB and AK)
7. Scrapbook of press notices, etc. 1925 (8 A3 sheets)
8. Engagement diary 1931 (71 sheets) See also below, Other media
9. Margaret Cecilia Baird Malcolm Baird, “The Albus, the Reids and the South African Connection”, 1998 (13 sheets) Extracts from letters about Kew Shelley (1 sheet) Handwritten note by AK regarding provenance of Hastings’ manuscript Margaret’s chapter 10, transcribed by Ray Herbert in 2000 (5 sheets) Handwritten notes for SABC broadcast 1958 (19 sheets) Typewritten talk for BBC Woman’s Hour 1959 (5 sheets) Interview with Natal Mercury 1977 (1 sheet)
10. Diana Richardson (née Baird) “Sydenham, Bude and Bexhill” 2000 (6 sheets)
11. Jack Buchanan Note by MHIB of phone calls with Susan Dillon, widow of Jack Buchanan (1 sheet) Letter from Douglas Brown regarding Michael Marshall’s biography of Jack Buchanan (4 sheets)
Gavin Fullarton Robertson School record (1 sheet) Letter from JLB (2 sheets) Letter from Stella Jaye (2 sheets) Probate Letter from Margaret Menzies Campbell (2 sheets) Entries from JLB’s diaries about Mephy, Ryde, and H Pearce (15 sheets) Correspondence about H Pearce (6 sheets) Letter from Alan Montgomery (2 sheets)
Leonard Frank Plugge Correspondence and self-composed entry for Who’s Who (5 sheets)
W J B Odhams Letter from Hew Naylor
J J Denton Note on retirement (1 sheet) Handwritten report on the British Association meeting in Glasgow 1928 (3 sheets)
W G Mitchell Letter (1960) describing formation of Television Society in 1927, and its early days (2 sheets) Letter to Geoffrey Parr (1960), and Parr’s notes on early history of television (2 sheets)
12. Donald Flamm Obituary by Malcolm Baird from Television April 1998 (1 sheet) Anonymous obituary from Station WMMM, Westport, Conn. (1 sheet) Letter from Flamm to Editor, Television, 18 January 1977 (3 sheets)
A G D West Correspondence and cuttings (3 sheets) Curriculum vitae 1932 (2 sheets) Obituaries (2 sheets)
A G Church Documents relating to his being blackballed by The Athenaeum (9 sheets) Announcement of Christie’s sale 5 June 1997 of papers of Major Church (1 sheet) Notes by MHIB (5 November 2000) on Peter Sindell’s collection of Major A G Church’s papers 1930--1939 (6 sheets) Further copy of above (9 May 2001), with situation to date (7 sheets)
Kew Shelley (Krishto Kumar Edwin Bonnerjee) Correspondence about origins, upbringing, career, etc. (11 sheets)
Sydney A Moseley Letters (mostly handwritten) from JLB 1931--1945 (47 sheets)
13. Paul V Reveley Agreement with Baird Television Ltd (3 sheets) “Some memories of John Logie Baird” 1995 (9 sheets) Handwritten reference from JLB (2 sheets) Curriculum vitae (5 sheets) Correspondence about JLB and Baird Television Ltd (18 sheets)
Ray Herbert (television historian, 1918--2005) Bibliography of articles (3 sheets) Letters from, and related documentation (43 sheets) Sketch plan of Baird’s laboratories at his home at Sydenham (1 sheet)
Donald Gilbert (sculptor) Correspondence relating to bust of JLB, including its rejection by BBC and acceptance by National Portrait Gallery (14 sheets)
Philip Hobson (Baird employee 1928--1931) Diary of Events September 1928--February 1931 “The Story of Noctovision”, Television, July/August 1988, with press cutting of event and extract from his official report (4 sheets)
14-15. JLB business and technical
14. Registration of the Baird Undersock Co. 1916 (1 sheet) Advertisements for the Baird Undersock (2 sheets) Letter of rejection from Reliance Lubricating Oil Co. (1 sheet) Documents relating to the business of John L. Baird and Co. Port- of-Spain (5 sheets) Official documentation relating to the establishment, trading, and management of John L Baird and Co. Ltd 1922--1928 (57 A3 sheets) Acknowledgment of resignation of JLB from the company 14 March 1923 (1 sheet)
15. Notice of establishment of Television Ltd 1925 (3 sheets) Prospectus and Form of Application for Shares, Baird Television Development Company Ltd 1927 (7 sheets) Correspondence with Andrew Henderson regarding photos of daylight and colour TV demonstrations (6 sheets) “Television 1928”, prospectus advertising three models of televisor (14 sheets) Diagram of home constructed television receiver (1 sheet) “Price list of Baird Branded Components for Home Construction” ?1929 (8 sheets) Leaflet advertising the “Baird Televisor” for viewing experimental transmissions ?1929 (1 sheet) Coliseum Arrangements, memo to Baird company staff July 1930 (1 sheet) Programme of Television Transmission by the Baird Process, November 1930 (2 sheets), December 1930 (1 sheet), March 1931 (1 sheet) Letters from Dr Alfred Gradenwitz to Bill Fox June 1930 about Baird’s reputation in Germany and relating to their dismissal from the company (2 sheets) “American Television in 1927--1932 and Baird’s 1931 Visit”, brief notes by MHIB (9 sheets) Letter from Donald Flamm (27 May 1976) to MHIB, with application for radio station construction in New York, notice to Federal Radio Commission about appearance to present their case, report of the Hearing Examiner 23 January 1932 (13 sheets) Introduction by Donald Flamm to the WMCA and inter-city network of JLB 18 October 1931 (2 sheets) Note by Iain Baird on Canadian Television Ltd 1931--1932 (8 May 2000), annotated by MHIB and AK (2 sheets) Note in JLB’s handwriting confirming the board’s decision to relieve him of his administrative duties in 1933 (1 sheet) Letter from JLB to chairman, Baird Television, 20 October 1933, defending himself against criticism (2 sheets) Staff list, Baird Television, November 1936, with salaries (11 sheets) Circular letter (addressed to Annie Baird) from chairman, Baird Television, 3 November 1939, announcing imminent receivership (2 sheets) Baird and radar, a selection of documents (20 sheets plus envelope of press cuttings) Letter from Dennis McMullan relating to JLB’s work during WWII (2 sheets) Correspondence between MHIB and P R Wallis relating to JLB’s work on colour and stereoscopic television (6 sheets) and US Patent 2,648,061 by Wallis and Admiralty (15 sheets) Minutes of a meeting of the board of John Logie Baird Ltd 20 December 1946 (3 sheets)
16. Patents lodged by JLB or relating to his work
222,604 (accepted 9/10/1924) Screen formed of rows of lamps 230,576 (accepted 19/3/1925) Lensed discs US 2,006,124 (accepted 25/6/1935) American patent for UK 269,658 (Flying spot) 292,185 (accepted 21/6/1928) Images transmitted by reflected wireless waves US 1,699,270 (accepted 15/1/1929) American patent for above France 653,590 (accepted 22/3/1929) French patent for above Germany 522,487 (accepted 6/5/1928) German patent for above 292,632 (accepted 26/6/1928) Recording of signals on magnetic discs 295,210 (accepted 9/8/28, amended 23/8/29) Luminous cross 297,014 (accepted 10/9/1928) Viewing object by electric waves 298,582 (accepted 11/10/1928) Reception of radio signals 299,076 (accepted 22/10/1928) Scrambling a facsimile image 300,183 (accepted 7/11/1928) Light-sensitive cell 300,592 (accepted 13/11/1928) Adding sound to film 318,295 (accepted 2/9/1929) Light-sensitive cell 321,138 (accepted 31/10/1929) Scrambling a facsimile image 324,029 (accepted 3/1/1930) Transmission of written messages 324,904 (accepted 4/2/1930) Recording images on tapes US 2,696,522 (accepted 7/12/1954) Robert H Rhines, “Visual reproduction of distant objects”
17-21. BBC and related documentation
17. Related documents (5 sheets) Information about Gladstone Murray’s resignation and licence figures, letters from Marista Leishman relating to her father (Lord Reith), and from Michael Holroyd relating to George Bernard Shaw and Reith.
1928 (10 sheets) Includes part of libellous letter from Campbell Swinton, letter from Murray to Moseley, and internal memos and reports on the Baird demonstration.
1929 (19 sheets) Complaint by member of public, Reith on his meeting with Hutchinson, report on House of Commons’ discussion, copy of letter from GPO to Baird company, and correspondence and contract between company and BBC 25 September 1929 for experimental transmissions.
18. 1930-1931 (53 sheets) Includes minute of Control Board Meeting, correspondence between Lords Ampthill and Gainford, correspondence between JLB and Reith, notes of Whitley’s meeting with JLB, internal memos about Baird TV, correspondence between JLB and Murray, memo from chief engineer to Reith (14 October 1931), plus subsequent memos, and correspondence between Reith and Ampthill.
1932 (42 sheets) Includes Ashridge’s account of Long Acre demo in presence of PMG, letter from JLB to PMG (with handwritten notes by Reith), correspondence between JLB and Reith about grant, press handout for ultra short-wave demonstration, copy of JLB’s letter to PMG with marginal note by Reith, notes on meeting between JLB and Moseley and Ashridge and Murray (12 July 1932), further correspondence between JLB and Reith, and Ashridge’s report on EMI demonstration.
19. January-June 1933 (115 sheets) Includes chief engineer’s report on television developments, memos and correspondence about BBC’s proposed co-operation with EMI, Sir Godfrey Thomas’s letter to Roger Eckersley enclosing letter from JLB to Prince of Wales (not in file) and reply, documents about a conflict in programming, correspondence about Baird and EMI demonstrations of ultra short-wave TV, and notes on meeting with GPO to discuss them, internal memos about policy with regard to mentioning television in BBC periodicals, correspondence about dinner to launch television receivers, and about the receivers themselves, and correspondence about installation of Baird and EMI transmitters at BBC.
20. July-September 1933 (21 sheets) Records of A G D West’s interview with chief engineer (13 July 1933) from both sides, and correspondence arising.
October 1933 – December 1933 (16 sheets) Documents and correspondence about ultra short-wave transmissions.
January 1934 – June 1935 (28 sheets) Includes correspondence about and reports on demonstration of Baird TV 12 March 1934, and notes on meeting at GPO 5 April 1934 to discuss Baird and EMI demonstrations, Baird company report and balance sheet 30 June 1933, with confidential comments for Reith, and memoranda about closure of 30-line service.
21. Official and unofficial programmes of opening of BBC TV service, 2 November 1936, and internal memorandum about Crystal Palace fire. (13 sheets)
22. Internal notes, 1952 about publication of Moseley’s biography of JLB. (12 sheets)
23. This Is Your Life Shooting script of the programme, 28 October 1957 (22 sheets) Letter from viewer who stayed in Mrs Denton’s boarding house in Hastings in 1923, contribution of anecdotes about JLB from Dora Jackson (née Caffrey), article by W C Fox, “I Worked with Baird”, handwritten letter from Christopher Hassall with typescript of poem about JLB. (12 sheets)
24. Minutes of discussions at meetings 1959 about fund instituted “on behalf of the dependants of the late Mr J L Baird”, correspondence and minutes 1958/9 about Baird Memorial Fund, and correspondence with Moseley 1956 about Geoffrey Scanlan’s play about JLB based on Moseley’s biography.
25. Documents relating to JLB in Hastings 1923--1924 Ray Herbert, “J L Baird: the Hastings Era 1923--1924”, August 1993 (annotated) Press cuttings 1923--1924, and 1990 (13 sheets) Documents relating to plaque and JLB postage frank (2 sheets) Correspondence and documents relating to 21 Linton Crescent (13 sheets) “Descriptive comments by Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird on the papers of the late John Logie Baird, acquired by the Hastings Museum in February 2002”, May 2002 (3 sheets) Photostats of photographs and handwritten captions, with notes (25 sheets) Estate agent’s leaflet on 3 Crescent Road, Sydenham (1 sheet) Short resumé of Baird Television (2 sheets) Patent position (1 sheet) Alteration by Margaret Baird to the ending of Sermons, Soap and Television Margaret Baird’s handwritten additional chapter
26. The Hastings Letters Press cuttings, extract from Christie’s catalogue, and news item, October 1999 (7 sheets) Ray Herbert, “Baird’s Lost Letters”, Practical Wireless, January 2000 Letter about copyright (1 sheet) Correspondence between JLB and Will Day (109 sheets) “Television”, company prospectus (3 sheets) Cartoon of Will Day
27. The Falkirk connection
Extract from feu contract 1905 relating to Baird family in Falkirk area 1754--1905 (3 sheets) Press cuttings from Falkirk Mail and Falkirk Herald 1925-1926 (13 sheets) John Walker, “Did a Falkirk Cafe Host the World’s First Public TV Demo?”, Falkirk Advertiser 11 July 1990 Press cuttings 1988-1994 about demonstration of television (7 sheets) John Walker, “The Curious Case of John Logie Baird”, Journal of the Falkirk Local History Society May 1996 Correspondence/documentation relating to Robert Shaw (4 sheets) Correspondence, documentation, notes, photographs, etc. relating to the “Falkirk Transmitter” and its provenance (23 sheets) Press and personal correspondence, notes, etc. relating to JLB’s connections with Falkirk and with the family of John Thomas Hart (16 sheets) Letters 2000--2001 from John Hart, son of John Thomas Hart (8 sheets) Correspondence with Dale F Baird (17 May 2000) about the family connections (2 sheets)
28. Press cuttings (29 sheets)
29-36. Other media
29. Photographs
Illustrations used in John Logie Baird: a life (38 glossy halftone prints) Related photographs (4 glossy halftone prints)` Copies of photographs from NPG files JLB and R F Tiltman 1927 (1 A3 sheet) JLB 1928 (4 A3 sheets) JLB ?late 1930s (7 A3 sheets) Sydney Moseley (1 A3 sheet) Isidore Ostrer (1 A3 sheet) Mr and Mrs Isidore Ostrer (2 A3 sheets)
30-2. CD/Video
30. JLB -- the Man Who Saw the Future (production video tape of full 75- minute version broadcast on BBC4)
31. Visions -- the life and legacy of John Logie Baird (SCRAN multi-media CD-rom)
32. JLB’s wartime engagement/memoranda diaries 1940-1946 (pdf files on CD), courtesy of Douglas Brown
33-36. Cassette recordings
33. Malcolm Baird, interviewed by AK December 1999
34. Donald Flamm, interviewed by Jan Leman August 1996
35. Composite tape [1] compiled by Ray Herbert: “Seeing by Wireless”, Radio 2 broadcast 1997; Margaret Baird and Betty Astell on Terry Wogan show; Tony Bridgewater and T M Lance interviewed by Ray Herbert
36 Composite tape [2] compiled by Ray Herbert: Ben Clapp interviewed By Ray Herbert, 1987; Crystal Palace Fire, Radio 4, 1986; H C Spencer on Crystal Palace Fire,,1983; J D Percy interviewed by Bruce Norman 1980; Bill Fox interviewed by Ray Herbert,1986
37. Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird, John Logie Baird; a life, NMS Publishing Ltd, 2002