Large Transit Van

Whilst all of the Magic Muscle #2 was going down, Rod was definitely not having a good time. He had contracted a rare form of Hepatitis (which later came to be known as 'C') & was admitted to an isolation ward where at one point he had the last rites read over him after having lapsed into a coma.
When he did make it back onto the streets, Adrian Shaw was waiting for him to take him to a studio where he recorded four of his songs. Ade played bass, Android played guitar & produced, & Simon House seconded from The Third Ear Band on violin & mandolin & no drummer. These recordings became known as the 'Large transit Van demo's'.
The point of the recordings was to get a recording deal & then "doing an original Roar once they were in the studio" (Louis). As such these recordings should be regarded as being part of Magic Muscle as it is what MM probably would have been doing if they had got to a studio. As it was, three of the four songs made it onto 'The Pipe, The Roar & The Grid', although at the time no one was interested.
So Rod headed back to the fields but this time with Lemmy's (Hawkwind, Motorhead) guitar. This is a story that Louis tells so much more eloquently than I:

"One day in early 1973, Lemmy came looking for Rod at his future mother in law's West End flat. Lemmy was urgently in need of funds (I know why, but I'm not telling you) but as all his cash was tied up in instruments just then he was hoping to persuade Mr. Goodway to part with some of his own bills. Since Rod wasn't around just then, Lemmy proceeded to make the lady (of German extraction, but that hardly matters, I'm just being thorough) understand the urgency of his problem. As a lecturer in Economics at the London Polytechnic she recognized a good deal when she saw one and finally handed over twenty pounds, with Lemmy putting up his guitar as collateral. Rod later refunded the twenty and took the guitar but Lemmy never repaid it. When Alehouse (one of Rod's later bands) did a gig with Hawkwind in 1975 and he reminded Lemmy of the guitar, the reply he received was that one day Lemmy might be able to repay it, "but meanwhile just look after it... may it serve you well".