1937 AEC Regal BBC Television Mobile Control Room MCR1
1937 AEC Regal in Cine Gazette No.10, Documentary, 1951
Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2022-11-03 22:04 |
Converted bus, but into what and by whom?? LT refreshment truck?? BBC commentary unit?? Race team transporter?? |
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◊ 2022-11-04 18:45 |
How about this?![[Image: 031fdcfb-4c61-403f-836d-d9877bb86046.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10516/031fdcfb-4c61-403f-836d-d9877bb86046.jpg) “Once the BBCTelevision service was established at Alexandra Palace, the advantages of being able to take cameras to a remote event were clear and the BBC commissioned their first Mobile Control Room, MCR1.This was just in time to cover the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on the 12th of May 1937. It had three Emitron cameras the same as the studio ones.These were installed in a coach built body on an AEC Regal Greenline bus chassis. MCR1 travelled as one of a circus with support vehicles - the generator van, and a transmitter van. In 1938 a second OB van was added to the fleet, MCR2 along with a Merryweather fire escape ladder unit that was used to extend the outgoing circuit aerial to 80ft. There were now four vehicles in the circus! The RF link back to AP was usually on a band 1 frequency above the broadcast AP transmitter output. This is MCR1. It had up/down doors on both sides to access the rear of the equipment racks.The idea of these doors was rediscovered in the 2000s for the Super Outside Broadcast Artics.” Taken from this document:- A look at the History of BBC Outside Broadcast Vans by Brian Summers G8GQS http://mcr21.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CQTV-271-MCR21.pdf And more detail here:- https://tvobhistory.co.uk/how/bbc-mcrs-bw/ -- Last edit: 2022-11-04 20:10:48 |
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◊ 2022-11-04 22:00 |
The only possibility of mis-identification is that it might be MCR2. |
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