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10th Dec 2019, 10:01 pm | #1 |
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GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
I don't think a link to this film has been posted before, apologies if it has. Subject as per title. All stages of manufacture.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gec+...obile&ie=UTF-8 |
10th Dec 2019, 10:37 pm | #2 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
I remember going around this factory in Conventry with the Shrewsbury branch for the RTRA on a day trip. If I remember correctly it might have been a year B4 this video was made can't even remember the model being made at that time but I don't remember pc's , all hand wired .
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10th Dec 2019, 10:41 pm | #3 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
Great film, love the narrator, doesn't have the foggiest what he's on about but reads the script with due authority, i couldn't help but think of a certain mr harry Enfield doing one of his sketches!.
Greg.
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10th Dec 2019, 11:33 pm | #4 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
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10th Dec 2019, 11:52 pm | #5 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
One of the many films distributed free to members of the BVWS (https://www.bvws.org.uk/publications/bulletins/dvds.php).
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11th Dec 2019, 10:48 am | #6 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV Factory Coventry 1960
Did you see the chap in final test thump the top of the set. We all did it in the workshop.
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4th Jan 2020, 12:22 pm | #7 |
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1960 GEC TV production in Coventry
Someone just posted this Utube video on a FB page that I belong to I thought some may find it interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzu...hxa2fzuiZubx4w |
4th Jan 2020, 1:35 pm | #8 |
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Re: 1960 GEC TV production in Coventry
Great film and thanks for the link but I think this has been posted before. J.
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14th Jan 2020, 12:50 pm | #9 |
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GEC 405 line TV manufacturing film, 1960
Here's an interesting film I found on You tube, GEC manufacturing of 405 line TV's in 1960.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzu7vpowHY Hope it's interesting to others as it was to me.
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14th Jan 2020, 1:15 pm | #10 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV manufacturing film, 1960
Yes, very interesting, an insight into a lost world of light engineering. The production line seems very advanced for 1960. The division of labour between men and women is now glaringly obvious in a way it simply wouldn't have been back then.
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14th Jan 2020, 1:45 pm | #11 |
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Re: GEC 405 line TV manufacturing film, 1960
Its taken from one of the free Christmas DVDs given to BVWS members.
List of DVD's From the BVWS (GEC one is from 2006) Regards, Jon |