United Kingdom - Ireland

Feb. 29 Television has a fire, Roving Eye. Direct on-the-spot televising is now being done in Britain with the British Brodcasting Corporation's new Roving Eye, a small truck equipped with a television cameras and sound and vision transmitters, which works as a unit by itself. with no wires connecting it to the television station. Signals are transmitted from the trunk to a nearby-by pick-up point over a directional serial, lined up at the start of the program and kept on a constant bearing, no matter which way the truck turns, by means of a gyro compass. Photo shows L - The Roving Eye takes in the rush-hour at London;s Waterloo Station, For televising topical events it can be driven off to the scene of operations at a moments notice

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