We've reached the stage in the story of Jodrell Bank where, in 1945, I had borrowed this gun-laying four meter radar equipment from Hey, and the army had deposited me, in December 1945, in the grounds of the Botanical Department, and the old huts, they still exist there. I had... in the early part of 1946, I had with me JA Clegg, who had been in Telecommunications Research Establishment, but he was not a member of my group, but he had been... he had become an expert on aerials, and his aid, during the next few months, was vital to what happened subsequently. I also acquired another young from TRE, named Bandwell, and he was a New Zealander. I had nothing to do with him during the war, but he also came to work with me at Jodrell.

Now, we moved the... we got a load of stones, and built a track, which now leads into the powerhouse, and moved our radar system over to somewhere where the powerhouse now exists. And then we decided to get more spacious accommodation, and Clegg was sent to drive away what we called a Park Royal. Now, in those days, there was so much disposal of equipment going on that there was no problem in ringing up previous colleagues, and asking if they could give us some more radar equipment. So we sent Clegg away, to drive a very large vehicle, which we called the Park Royal. That was the official name of it. And we drove this system into the field, until it just became stuck in the mud, and we couldn't drive any further, and we moved our radar equipment into this Park Royal. It is somewhere, as far as location is concerned, it is close to where the Mark Two Telescope is now, and that building, the control building of that telescope, I don't know, but we called it for a long time, the Park Royal. Anyhow, this vehicle was close to that site. And it was there in 1946 that we carried out our first researches on the meteor phenomenon.