Curly
master brummie
Hi Topsy - They look mighty suspicious and up to something and they have stopped by the boarded up shop. I notice there are two more youngsters looking at the picture adverts on the front of the Hippodrome!!
That van parked by them has a very tall pole with an X shaped aerial on top and a cable going towards the Hippodrome. I can't read the words on the side of the van but I think I can see a crown...wonder what it was doing ?
This van would be an 'OUTSIDE BROADCAST UNIT' (don't recall/can't work out the first word under the crown) - most probably for radio. Those vans were based at the GPOs 'Tyburn' depot on the corner of Chester Road/Kingsbury Road, (where Halfords is now) where I was based for some of my GPO/POT apprenticeship in the late '60s.
Correction:- Nearly right!.....
from https://www.britishtelephones.com/vehicles/specialist/020.htm
a 'Karrier Bantam' Mobile Television Repeater Vehicle
used by the Post Office Television Outside Broadcast Service