[…]ose days, it didn't leak over tele Sydney, yes, and when I got to Bristol, it was completely different, because it was small, apart from the fact the engineers were out at an OB base out at Whitchurch at that time. But you got to know everybody. And I was again, lucky. I was sent to radio talks unit[…]
[…]want to call it the my amazement, I drew a ticket went home. And, of course, I saw Michael, because he wasn't in the army. He has been directed as an engineer. He was trained as an electrical engineer. He was working for what I think is now EMI,Unknown Speaker 32:07 right.Michael Clarke […]
[…] He had sort of work to do. And so I thought well dear that you know this is not really suitable. So I applied to G.D. Peters sons in Slough who were engineers. They made all sorts of engineering equipment principally they did a lot of work for the London Underground. They made all the seats for the[…]
[…]il Air Guard because my Aunt during my school holidays, at the age of 12 as a matter of fact, had taught me to fly and I used to go up with the chief engineer there and then he had to test fly an aircraft after maintenance and he used to take me up, so he added a lot of polish to what my aunt had ta[…]
[…] piece of equipment went? I remember the panic caption because it was on the air half the time.BH: That's right, you'd go into breakdown and then the engineers would rush out, all in their long white coats and pull the camera to bits. They didn't have replacements, they had to mend them you seeRF: T[…]
[…]British Kinematograph Society was behind it, it was all theory stuff like, a lot of useful stuff mind you. Photographic chemistry, design, electrical engineering and all sorts of things, and we did tinker a bit with 9.5mm and I think we had an old Newman Sinclair. But that was all right for the firs[…]
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[…] they worked out quite well. Oh I got a Royal Engineer Sergeant, quite officially, to write the titles out for […]
[…]ppened was they bought a competitor of ours and the reason they bought him was (noise) er they wanted the guy who was running it who was an ex camera engineer, they wanted him to manage this place because they weren’t getting any business at all. So they bought his company and the equipment and amal[…]
