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Patrick writes in his email;

I thought you might be interested to know that the IVC 7000 Colour TV Camera was used by London Weekend TV (LWT) on their 6 Camera main OB Unit, which was introduced in 1976/7. There is photographs of the unit and it's cameras in a feature on the FA Cup Final in ITV 1981 (the ITV handbook for that year). I also have a copy of an article in International Broadcast Engineer magazine from 1979, which details the various LWT OB units in use at that time. The article states that LWT OBs had standardised on the IVC 7000 in both standard and handheld forms.

The IVC 7000 handheld version was also used by Thames TV and Southern TV in some small OB units introduced in the late 1970s. This information comes from various ITV handbooks of the late seventies and early 1980s.

Patrick