Below are some links to some very good websites for those who wish to look a bit further into the history of television outside broadcasts
The MCR21 Project
Follow the restoration of a 1960s BBC TV Mobile Control Room and discover its history
The Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera
A brilliant site for finding out about the cameras used on outside broadcasts.
BBC ExComms
You will find Ron Chown’s story here . Working on BBC outside broadcasts from the post war years.
BECG
The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group has, and is continuing to, restore a number of TV Mobile Control Rooms – The website contains lots of information about the vehicles and many articles on the history of broadcast television
LPU
The Lightweight Production Unit was designed as a 2-camera recording unit and used by the BBC on dramas in the 1970s and 80s. It is presently under restoration.
Adapt Project
The Royal Holloway, London University is undergoing a three year project, bringing people who worked in broadcast television, back to work on the equipment they used and recording their experience.The latest part of the project involved BBC type 2 OB North 3.