Does anyone know about the Motosocoche recorder

[Reel-to-reel-man]

Can anyone help? I have been interested in buying a Motosocoche tape recorder though I have no pictures or information on them, anybody got any info?

[Michael Franz]

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[Friedrich Engel]

Hello, Reel-to-Reel-man,

the correctly spelled name of the Swiss motorcycle et.al. manufacturer from Geneva is Motosacoche S.A. ('a' instead of 'o'). In fact, they also built tape recorders (Google gives two links at least ), possibly from 1948 onwards, but little else is known about their further activities in this field.

As these machines were used by the Swiss Radio Corp., too, the PTT Museum für Kommunikation, Bern, Switzerland (http://www.mfk.ch/pttarchiv.html) could have some information (at least a book edited by PTT mentions the Motosacoche machines). Try your luck by e-mail: archiv@mfk.ch

In any case, this tape recorder could be an absolute rarity! Please keep us informed how things go on.

Greetings,
F.E.

[Reel-to-reel-man]

Thank you, I have only seen them in the BBC radiophonic workshop, only the two and no one else in the UK seem to have used them, the hunt goes on.