By Ruth Slavid, Jeffrey Borinsky and Helen Casey.
Following on from Helen’s article A Rural Surprise, the National Transport Trust magazine Transport Digest have published a follow-up article about our Vivat re-creation.
Continue reading “Vivat!”RetroTechUK 2021
All being well, BECG will have a stall at RetrotechUK (previously NVCF) on Sunday 26th September 2021.
Continue reading “RetroTechUK 2021”BBC P5 Generator NGF728
We are delighted to announce that we have bought a former BBC mobile generator vehicle at auction. It came up at the CVA Doncaster commercial vehicle and plant online auction on 20 October 2020. The auctioneer contacted us because of Ruth Slavid’s article in Commercial Motor. We are grateful for assistance from Mark Forrester and his company, Euromunicipal, who are regular customers of CVA and bid on our behalf. At very short notice we managed to secure enough funding, but with a struggle and only just.
We’re still here!
With the Covid-19 restrictions curtailing our working weekends severely, it’s not been possible to make as much progress on our projects as we would normally manage.
That doesn’t mean to say that nothing is happening!
Continue reading “We’re still here!”Bryant Unlimited
Bryant Unlimited kindly donated a drum of double-screened video coax and their remaining stock of crimp PL259 connectors for our Vivat project.
The owner of Bryant Unlimited has decided to retire and close the company, however some of the staff have formed new companies to continue to supply parts of the Bryant portfolio, the old Bryant website currently has the details.
We wish them well and thank them for their donation.
A Rural Surprise
By Helen Casey.
Helen Casey, the widow of BECG friend Terry Casey, originally wrote this article for the National Transport Trust magazine Transport Digest.
Continue reading “A Rural Surprise”New articles
We have added some new articles recently:
- Jeffrey and Paul have followed up their BVWS article Carry On Trucking with a new one looking at Vivat in particular: Long Live Vivat!
- Trevor Brown has kindly sent us some more articles from CQ-DATV:
- The Lightweight Revolution looks at the rise of Electronic News Gathering.
- Five go to Amsterdam recalls an earlier life when we took a RCA TR70-B VTR and a Marconi Mk VII camera to IBC in Amsterdam – we billed it as “the world’s largest camcorder”!
- Dan Cranefield continues his reminiscences with Early Location Drama in Colour, which dovetails with Richard’s Roving Eye article as it also discusses the conversion of Roving Eye 5 into the LMCR.
Long Live Vivat!
Long live Vivat! – Jeffrey Borinsky and Paul Marshall
When we wrote about some of our outside broadcast (OB) trucks in the Winter 2019 Bulletin, we said a little about Vivat, our oldest truck, but this fascinating project deserves a closer look. It is a re-creation, as near as is technically possible, of an OB truck that was used at the Queen’s coronation on 2 June 1953.
Continue reading “Long Live Vivat!”The Lightweight Revolution
By Trevor Brown.
Trevor takes a journey through TV news gathering, from film to modern digital formats.
Continue reading “The Lightweight Revolution”Early Location Drama in Colour
By Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs.
Photo: Dan Cranefield.
Dan Cranefield looks into the beginnings of location drama shot on videotape instead of film.
Continue reading “Early Location Drama in Colour”