Comments on: Philips INC Broadcast Remote Truck c. 1979 https://www.preservationsound.com/philips-inc-broadcast-remote-truck-c-1979/ information and ideas about audio history Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bam https://www.preservationsound.com/philips-inc-broadcast-remote-truck-c-1979/#comment-216570 Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:06:15 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7598#comment-216570 How hot must it have been to sit inside that truck with all the gear on?

]]> By: bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/philips-inc-broadcast-remote-truck-c-1979/#comment-216087 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:53:09 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7598#comment-216087 Apparently, the bodies were made for LHD and RHD chassis, and markets as required. Since film trucks are one of the few commerical vehicles that routinely are sea or airlifted to very alien markets and road systems, it’s usually no big deal to be driving in an “offsides” area, e.g, on the right in a RHD truck or on the left in an LHD one. This is unnerving until one gets used to it.

Years ago I drove an imported Foden London doubledecker bus around the streets of Cincinnati. THAT was scary.

But that the body was designed for both chassis types indicates they had dedicated trucks for sale to those markets or to be stationed permanently there, just as the British Army of the Rhine has lots of LHD military vehicles.

Personally, I always thought that center drive would be the better way to go, especially on modern rear engine rear drive chassis.

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