As time draws on, the story of the creation of ‘Amp Number One’, the very first Marshall JTM45, is turning into legend, with truth and myth sometimes interwoven depending on which version you read. When this writer was privileged to meet and spend a day with Jim Marshall back in early 2001, he was still working 12-hour days at the Bletchley factory – usually the first to arrive and often the last to leave. Jim’s own version of events, which at that time had taken place four decades earlier, was well rehearsed as he’d obviously recited it countless times to journalists from all over the world.
Jim Marshall suffered from ill health as a child and he was exempted from military service
