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  • When BBC Engineers were tough!

    From JMB99@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 15 15:31:58 2024
    Sunday Post - Sunday 24 May 1953
    Image © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH
    LIBRARY BOARD.
    They Carried 300 lb. Of B.B.C. Kit To The Top Of Ben Nevis
    THE first batch of volunteers set off yesterday from Achintee, at the
    foot of Ben Nevis, on their five-mile climb to the summit.
    They were laden with timber for the big bonfire on Coronation night.
    The climb was made through a thick mist, which enveloped the mountain
    down 2000 feet from the summit Further mass ascents will have to be made
    before the huge pile of timber is transferred from Achintee the top.
    Earlier in the day, a team of B.B.C. engineers climbed to the top to
    make radio-transmission tests for the broadcast, which is to take place
    on Coronation night.
    The broadcast will consist of a message of loyalty to the Queen. If will
    be made by Provost John Carmichael, Fort William, who will speak in
    Gaelic and English.
    A description will be given of the bonfire
    About 300 lb. of B.B.C. equipment was carried up by mountaineers and
    members of the Lochaber Mountaineering Club. After the test, the
    equipment was taken back the base. It will be carried back to the summit
    before Coronation Day.
    Among those who made the ascent were some women mountaineers.

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  • From MikeS@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 15 21:42:16 2024
    On 15/02/2024 15:31, JMB99 wrote:
    About 300 lb. of B.B.C. equipment was carried up by mountaineers and
    members of the Lochaber Mountaineering Club.

    So the BBC engineers were not that tough. Neither were the others if
    there were 300 of them.

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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to MikeS on Thu Feb 15 22:32:46 2024
    On 15/02/2024 21:42, MikeS wrote:
    So the BBC engineers were not that tough. Neither were the others if
    there were 300 of them.



    Where does it say 300 people involved?

    Certainly nothing like 300 in the film of the bonfire.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to MikeS on Fri Feb 16 01:35:38 2024
    In message <uqm0fo$3g4qe$[email protected]> at Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:42:16,
    MikeS <[email protected]> writes
    On 15/02/2024 15:31, JMB99 wrote:
    About 300 lb. of B.B.C. equipment was carried up by mountaineers and >>members of the Lochaber Mountaineering Club.

    So the BBC engineers were not that tough. Neither were the others if
    there were 300 of them.

    Are you unfamiliar with the abbreviation "lb."?
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.

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