Whats your favourite LES L JOHNS story

[Paul Stenning]

Originally Posted by Tazman1966

Here it is.

Attachment 12116

Click on the thumbnail and enjoy!

Is there a second page?

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by Tazman1966

Here it is.

Attachment 12116

Click on the thumbnail and enjoy!

But what about page 15, Tas?

P.S. I see that Paul wants more too!

[Tazman1966]

Originally Posted by Nickthedentist

But what about page 15, Tas?

P.S. I see that Paul wants more too!

Sorry guys.

I did it in a bit of a hurry this morning. I'll do the rest a bit later when I get home from work.

[Paul Stenning]

If you can do it (plus the first page) at a bit higher resolution that would help.

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by Tazman1966

I'll do the rest a bit later when I get home from work.

Thanks Tas.

That's a good example of his writing that you chose.

Nick.

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by Paul Stenning

If you can do it (plus the first page) at a bit higher resolution that would help.

Yes, but the way you've done it is perfectly OK if that's as good as it gets (digital camera and steady hand?!).

Nick.

PS I'd be happy to scan and post more of the same, if people are interested, but it won't be immediate as my 70s magazines are in Guildford at the moment.

[Paul Stenning]

I'd love to see more, and I would gladly host them at www.vintage-radio.info (unless/until a copyright owner told me to remove them).

[KeithsTV]

I have copies of Television going back to 1969 and could scan some of the articles and post them if people are interested.

I always used to enjoy his articles, both the servicing and the later stories re-reading them over and over again. Of all the magazines I used to get every month I always used to look forward to getting Television learning most of what I know about TV from the magazine, some of whose contributors are also members of this forum.

Keith

[Paul Stenning]

Originally Posted by KeithsTV

I have copies of Television going back to 1969 and could scan some of the articles and post them if people are interested.

Yes please!

If they are too big to post here, PM me for my email address so you can send them to me and I can put them on www.vintage-radio.info. I'd like to set up a LLJ section there, if there are enough articles to justify it.

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by Paul Stenning

I'd like to set up a LLJ section there, if there are enough articles to justify it.

That would be a wonderful tribute to a much-missed engineer

[Focus Diode]

Originally Posted by Paul Stenning

Yes please!

If they are too big to post here, PM me for my email address so you can send them to me and I can put them on www.vintage-radio.info. I'd like to set up a LLJ section there, if there are enough articles to justify it.

That would be fantastic!

Here's The Return of Beardy and Non Beardy. "A Visit To Mr Nasty" was in the same issue!

Cheers,
Brian

[KeithsTV]

I've been looking through my old magazines and I think these are the first of the story type of articles dating from September 1977 and the last dating from October 1990.

In October 1977 the series "TV servicing: Beginners Start Here" began written by S.Simon S LLJ was kept busy.

Enjoy

Paul I'll PM you and send more articles as and when I can find the time to scan them as there are over 150 by my reckoning.

Keith

[Sideband]

Originally Posted by Nickthedentist

That would be a wonderful tribute to a much-missed engineer

I'll second that! It's been good re-reading some of these stories. Les was one of the reasons why I bought TV mag in the first place.



Rich.

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by KeithsTV

I've been looking through my old magazines and I think these are the first of the story type of articles dating from September 1977 and the last dating from October 1990.

The last one is fairly typical of how things were in the end. Lots of hard work then job declined.

So, he did have a daughter after all. A Google search provided one result for someone of the same name, in the guestbook of some strange "spiritual" site

I wonder who excatly SK Lakha was. Did he take over the shop?

N.

[Paul Stenning]

That 1977 one is excellent (I haven't read the other one yet).

[Steve_P]

On 23rd, I will hopefully be at Shifnal.

Chas E. Miller also wrote for Television Magazine, and some of his articles are pretty good too. He will I hope be able to tell us about Copyright, as well as things like whether HB is still living.

(Are you going by the way?)

In the meantime, don't put too many articles here because IF this idea of a book of his stories comes to be a possibility, then it might dilute sales!!

Cheers,

Steve P

[Tazman1966]

Originally Posted by Tazman1966

Sorry guys.

I did it in a bit of a hurry this morning. I'll do the rest a bit later when I get home from work.

...better late than never!

Page 15:



Page 16



Page 17




Enjoy - I did.

[Focus Diode]

Originally Posted by Steve_P

Chas E. Miller also wrote for Television Magazine, and some of his articles are pretty good too. He will I hope be able to tell us about Copyright, as well as things like whether HB is still living.

Agree! "Lemon '81 Style" (June 1981) is a classic for example. George Wilding too of course to name another.

I remember reading Les was asked to put his work into a book, titled "Service With A Smile" (or something like that), featuring his best articles. Sadly it never materialised.

With "Television" changing hands so often (George Newness, IPC, Reed Business etc), one wonders who actually owns the copyright nowadays?

Brian

[Paul Stenning]

When writing for a magazine the author normally retains copyright in the article and grants the magazine the rights to publish it in that issue.

[evingar]

When writing for a magazine the author normally retains copyright in the article and grants the magazine the rights to publish it in that issue.

That was certainly the case when I wrote a piece for 405 Alive (Under the excellent stewardship of Andy Emmerson).