  We consider a special case of a WP-Bailey chain of George Andrews, and use it
to derive a number of curious transformations of basic hypergeometric series.
We also derive two new WP-Bailey pairs, and use them to derive some additional
new transformations for basic hypergeometric series. Finally, we briefly
consider the implications of WP-Bailey pairs\\ $(\alpha_n(a,k)$,
$\beta_n(a,k))$, in which $\alpha_n(a,k)$ is independent of $k$, for
generalizations of identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type.
