it seemed interesting to me to propose some vehicles made to support the television broadcasts of the countries in the world.
I start with the vehicle made for EIAR (now Italian Radio Telavision - RAI) taken up in 1930
In 1940, Viotti constructed two of these vehicles on Fiat 508 C/1100 Coloniale chassis for use by EIAR in Italian East Africa. The vehicles never reached their destination, however, as the ship transporting them was sunk.
Those Fiats in the ship are sadly impressive...
I also have saved several photos.
Here are some filming/TV-broadcasting vehicles.
I happen to know where your fifth picture showing the NDR broadcasting van was taken. Sadly the old building was demolished in 2012.
Wow - was für ein Zufall...
Rai:
No idea on how to post pictures but use Google and look for the Alfa Romeo 500A with body by Mario Revelli di Beaumont. Wonderful streamlined body built on an Alfa 500A bus chassis for the Italian Radio/Television company EIAR (predecessor of the RAI) with a roof that could be could be opened and bars on the roof to hold onto when a reporter would stick himself out of the roof. This vehicle also had a matching trailer in similar design. Truly great design if you ask me. In this thread there's one picture with the roof closed.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/bus-stop-classics-1950s-alfa-romeo-buses-mass-transportation-con-verve/
This is the one you mean; it hasn't been puzzled here..:
Thanks "Carnut" for posting that picture, great help for analogue people like me. That's the vehicle indeed.
Chevrolet:
Romeo:
I could have posted this one in the toy car thread as well: ;)
from Urss:
Do You know "Last & Kraft", a german vintage-comercial-vehicle magazine? Edition 2/2021 includes a report about an Mercedes LP 322, construction year 1962, used by "Norddeutscher Rundfunk", housed in "PS-Speicher", Einbeck.
Quote from: sichel on January 28, 2021, 08:13:50 AM
Do You know "Last & Kraft", a german vintage-comercial-vehicle magazine? Edition 2/2021 includes a report about an Mercedes LP 322, construction year 1962, used by "Norddeutscher Rundfunk", housed in "PS-Speicher", Einbeck.
No, I don't: can you include a picture of this magazine?
from the movie "Interceptor"
another picture of Alfa 500
@ thorax: here it is. And also the second german classic-commercial-vehicles-magzine: "Historischer Kraftverkehr"
seems interesting: thank you!
BBC
RTF
Serbian Television:
A Mercedes-Benz L 3500 broadcasting truck from the German Hessischer Rundfunk:
Borgward B 1500 F, advertising truck of the Südwestfunk (SWF), Germany. Built by Doll.
beautiful!
From Uruguay:
RAI:
Two trucks built for RCA/NBC in USA in 1938
An early German one:
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) had the first post-war outside broadcast van, in german "Übertragungswagen", based on a Büssing Type 5000 TU bus, called Ü1, which was converted by Göppel.
The underfloor engine of the TU models severely restricted the boot space, and the high floor meant that the interior height was not ideal for the necessary technical equipment.
Ü2 and Ü3 were therefore built by Kässbohrer in 1953 on the basis of the Büssing 4000 T.
This also called for a christening, and it is good to see how much space was available inside for the technical equipment.
As early as 1951, Kässbohrer built the second West German broadcast van for Hessischer Rundfunk based on an O 6600. This meant that space was not an issue. There was plenty of storage space in the rear for the many metres of cable.
Towards the end of the 1950s, rear-engine buses finally became the norm, and body manufacturers, primarily Kässbohrer, had to switch to truck chassis with probe bodies for their broadcast vehicles. From the medium-sized LP 322 or LP 312 to the full-grown LP 2224.