In 1978, the same pair were responsible for The Townhouse, in London. In 1975, in conjunction with the Californian designer, Tom Hidley (the founder of Westlake Audio), Philip Newell re-built The Manor. The Manor Mobile was the world’s first purpose-designed 24 track recording vehicle, and during Newell’s time with it, he recorded many world famous artistes and ensembles, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) Queen, the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Mike Oldfield, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (in Warsaw), Jethro Tull, Genesis, Little Feat, The Small Faces, and countless more. His involvement with mobile recordings had begun in 1970, whilst working with Pye Records, and spending much time with their mobile recording studio. During this time with Virgin, he was a founder of The Manor Mobile, and the designer of their first two trucks. Philip Newell’s return to studio design was two years after he had sold his shares in Virgin Records recording division, for whom he had spent ten out of his eleven years with them as technical director. Joined forces to expand the work of Reflexion Arts into studio design, the first result of which was The Court Studio of Jacobs Studios in Farnham, England, in 1984.
As a result of this encounter, Newell and Weeks
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