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Carry on Trucking Jeffrey Borinsky While Many Enthusiasts Collect Radios and Televisions, Broadcasting Equipment Is a More Neglected Area The Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society • Vol 44 Winter 2019 Carry on Trucking Jeffrey Borinsky While many enthusiasts collect radios and televisions, broadcasting equipment is a more neglected area. The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG) is a group of people who rescue, restore and conserve historic UK television equipment, focusing on the engineering aspects. We aim to use this to present television history to the public. In the sight of all the people There are no surviving examples of 1950s done. The BECG would like to thank Bryant Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, BBC television outside broadcast units, Unlimited which has sponsored the project supported as before, the Sword of State despite the ‘50s being such an important with donations of cable and connectors. being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, decade for the new medium of TV. Project Vivat has been used as a prop in several and make her solemn Oath in the sight of Vivat has remedied that by re-creating a productions, most notably for a scene all the people to observe the premisses. representative operational unit. It is based at Churchill’s funeral in The Crown. Paul on a very similar early 1960s vehicle, fitted On 2 June 1953 Queen Elizabeth II Marshall is a very good vintage cameraman! out with original early 1950s equipment. was crowned. Thanks to the largest ever The vehicle is 390 EXH, originally the outside broadcast (OB) in the UK, 75% BBC’s MCR23 (Mobile Control Room). Inside and out - the OB story of people in the UK saw her coronation Before it reached us, Vivat was languishing While many early TV performances came live on TV; more than had ever seen a from the studios at Alexandra Palace, there British monarch being crowned before. as a redundant and derelict mobile classroom. After much work by BECG members, paid were also exciting events elsewhere. After that The Queen’s coronation marked British for by them personally, it now looks splendid first OB in 1937, the BBC covered numerous television’s coming of age. Against the in the original dark-green BBC livery. Most events outside the studio. The football wishes of her advisers, the young monarch of the monitors and other equipment have authorities worried that TV would reduce their herself insisted on having cameras in now been installed. The cameras and crowds at matches, but tennis and boxing had Westminster Abbey. What’s less well known associated equipment are Marconi Mk no such qualms; Wimbledon was a regular is that the very first British OB had been II and Mk III series, the models used at OB fixture. The BBC used all its limited OB at the coronation of her father, George VI. the coronation. Final wiring remains to be resources for the 1948 “austerity” Olympics. This was in 1937, not long after the start of the world’s first regular high definition TV service, at a time when high definition meant 405 lines. Just three cameras and a single OB truck near Hyde Park Corner allowed viewers a glimpse of the royal procession. VIVAT REGINA! At the 1953 coronation, Hubert Parry’s 1902 setting of the coronation anthem I was glad was sung by the Westminster School choristers, complete with the cry: Vivat Regina! It was therefore only fitting that the project to re-create a coronation- era OB truck should be called Vivat. 1954 OB with Marconi Mk II Camera and Pye D16T TV as a monitor Vivat as found Vivat restored interior Vivat on set for “The Crown” with Paul Marshall playing a Vivat in London Marconi Mk III cameraman camera on roof 28 The Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society • Vol 44 Winter 2019 Southern at AEC Rally 2014 Marconi Mk VII first generation colour camera Southern interior Southern Television OOW 999G colour operation using four Marconi Mk VII Museum. In 2008 we drove Big Bertha We’ve been involved with Big Bertha, as cameras and was used at the Investiture of all the way back to Southampton and she’s affectionately known, since she was Prince Charles at Caernarfon Castle, as was parked her outside the Rose Bowl for the rescued from Meridian TV’s car park in 1995. every other colour OB truck at the time. celebration of 50 years of ITV in the south. At that time the truck was just a shell with When Southern TV lost its franchise in the few original fitments and was painted in 1982 ITV re-organisation, the truck passed Equpiment to TVS which continued to use the truck TVS silver. After a five year programme of We have tried to restore her to the throughout its reign, refitting it several times repairing and refitting, she made her debut original colour fit-out using equipment at the Newark Vehicle show in 2000 and After the ITV franchise changed from of the original type where possible. was featured in Bus and Coach magazine. TVS to Meridian, the truck was abandoned Some original fitments have survived, OOW 999G was bought by Southern TV in a car park at Northam Studios. A kick including power, some woodwork, air in 1968 as a bare chassis Bedford VAL 70. of the tyres, some new diesel, lubricants conditioning, racks and audio patching. and coolant and it was driven away to The outer coachwork is all fibreglass – this The colour cameras can be up to four start its new life in preservation. was a requirement as a lot of work would be Marconi Mk VII. Monitors are a mixture done next to the sea. The electronics fit was of Pye monochrome and Barco colour. done in-house by Southern TV engineers In preservation These are not 100% authentic but are with help from the Marconi Company. This Southern has been shown in public many much more reliable than the originals. Most gives the unit a uniquely home-made feel of the other equipment is by Marconi. in comparison to others in the fleet. times. Events have included 10 years at the Lincoln Steam and Vintage Show, Originally fitted out with monochrome British Amateur TV Club conventions and cameras, she was quickly converted to an appearance at the Sandtoft Trolleybus 29 The Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society • Vol 44 Winter 2019 Yorkshire / Tyne Tees NUB 327F away. A split coolant hose was the only television service. We used the truck to make ITV used to be a collection of regional incident on the way back to base. a programme using vintage technology – two companies that were friendly rivals, each with After a good clean out we started to Marconi Mk IV cameras and one Marconi Mk its own identity and traditions. So why the refit and repair. We fitted a mixture of V camera cabled back to the truck, which was curious split personality? This truck was built cameras and control gear to make a parked on the terrace outside the studios. We for the newly formed Yorkshire TV in 1968. After sort of chameleon rather than a strict had several working 405-line sets supplied various adventures it is now in the BECG, but preservation like the Southern truck. by enthusiasts to display the programme live in the old transmitter hall and it was also in Tyne Tees colours. How did that happen? Things were pushed along by a request for carried by a local amateur television repeater. Built by Marconi on a Bedford chassis , it the truck to appear in the 2003 Christmas was one of the “Yorkshire Twins” that opened special of The Royal filmed in Scarborough, The truck has been to many other events, the service in 1968 (literally, as the studios which was Tyne Tees country. A quick including a BVWS Harpenden meeting. were not finished!). Later it was sold to the paint job and some decals supplied by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) production company transformed the old Equipment Yorkshire truck into Tyne Tees TV OB unit 3 as a production vehicle for training videos, and Besides having a dual personality, several and that is how it has stayed ever since. It has then acquired by Harefield Hospital Television, types of equipment are fitted so it can be subsequently had a new high-quality respray. where we first set eyes on it. Fast forward used as a technology exhibition. Monochrome twenty years to 2001 and it was decaying so cameras are Marconi Mk IV and Mk V we agreed to purchase it and preserve it. Out and about using 4.5” image orthicon tubes. Colour We collected it in January 2001. It still In 2005 we took the truck to the Marconi cameras are Marconi Mk VIII plumbicon. had lots of equipment fitted, both original reunion in Chelmsford where it received and additional. It was covered in moss a very warm welcome. Pictures from the and hadn’t been started for ten years, truck went out live on Anglia TV news. but a pressure washer, some new hoses, fluids, diesel, batteries and a large “battery In 2006, a special event took place at boiler” coaxed it back to life and we drove Alexandra Palace in North London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the start of the BBC Yorkshire/Tyne Tees as found at Harefield Yorkshire/Tyne Tees in fake snow for "The Royal" Yorkshire/Tyne Tees Yorkshire/Tyne Tees in fake snow for “The Royal” Yorkshire/Tyne Tees in original Yorkshire livery 30 The Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society • Vol 44 Winter 2019 ABC-Thames in service with Thames TV ABC-Thames as found Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group We are a small group of qualified and experienced professionals dedicated to the survival and interpretation of television history.
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