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The degree of electronic miniaturization could not be imagined back in the day

http://www.tvobhistory.co.uk/bbc-1937--1939.html

Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 4:18 pm Post subject:

Interesting.

My Father in law worked as a Technician at the BBC starting in the early 60's. He worked on a lot of OB's right up until he retired 10 years or so back.
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

What was in the van was basically the same as the studio equipment described here: www.nostalgiatech.co.uk/Emitron.htm

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Rootes75 · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 10:50 am Post subject:

Also of interest, there used to be a chap near us in Shepton Mallet who used to own a couple of 60's Bedford BBC OB lorries. They were outside his place for years just deteriorating.
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roverdriver · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:36 am Post subject:

So long ago, and maybe the memory is flawed, but my folks bought a T.V. in about 1947. I well remember watching the test programme that came on in the afternoons. There was a scene from a play, a fire engine complete with bailey ladder racing to a building fire, and I am sure that there was a short scene of an O.B. van among other things.

T.V was only broadcast in the afternoons and evening and there was only one channel. I enjoyed the antics of Muffin the Mule, and remember watching a Gorge Formby film that I later identified as 'No Limit'

We left England in November 1949, and I had my fifth birthday at sea on the way to Australia.
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