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From March 1984 to September 1988 the BBC were to acquire a total of 16 Nagra VPR-5s, and thanks to
Ron Nether and Don Kershaw's amazing BBC VTR list on the Oldboys site, I hope they don't mind me repeating their VPR-5 specific information here. |
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The BBC VPR-5's
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VPR-5 serial
number (last
digits)
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reference
number
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Known history
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329914Television Centre 3/84, Manchester 6/84, London Outside Broadcast
12/84, Sold back to Ampex 12/86.
338405Television Centre spare 11/84
339224London Outside Broadcast 12/84
3571404Manchester 3/85
3581303Bristol 3/85
3622211Birmingham 5/85
3632210London Outside Broadcast 8/85, Scrap 5/87, Spares
3812213London Outside Broadcast 10/85
4083409TBC 40A4, Mexico 7/86, ELS 10/86
4093410TBC 40A4, Mexico 7/86, Spare 10/86, London Outside Broadcast 4/87
4423810ELS 7/87
4433909Outside Broadcast Temp 10/87, Glasgow 10/88
4443910Glasgow 10/88
4483608PSC 12/87
4493609Manchester 2/88
458?Television Centre Spare 9/88
(If you have further information about the history of any specific machines BBC or otherwise, do please let
me know.) |
