An Akai 40,000 Solid State Reel to Reel Tape Recorder, the property of Tom Newman, co-founder of Virgin records and producer of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. This is one of three Akai 40,000 in use at the Manor Studios in the early 1970s and was the machine that first played the 3inch reel-to-reel demo of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells