Here 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 Progress of the restoration of a 1960s BBC Mobile Control Room


The Museum of the Broadcast  Television Camera

A brilliant site for finding out about the cameras used on outside broadcasts.

Golden Age Television


You can hire a 1950s camera or a complete 1970s Outside Broadcast Unit
On The Air


Lots here about renovating a BBC Type-2 Outside Broadcast Unit
VTOldboys


Many photos of BBC outside broadcasts over the years in the archive section
The Vivat Project


An ambitious project to recreate a 1950s BBC Marconi Mobile Control Room, using a slightly later Pye unit as base vehicle.
BBC ExComms


You will find Ron Chown's story here . Working on BBC outside broadcasts from the post war years.
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

New York's Broadcasting History