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On 28/06/2012, Tom Fine wrote: >> I think Mercury was unique in using a truck as >> the "machine room" rather than just a transport vehicle. > Didn't the BBC use trucks for outside broadcasts from early on? > Regards--Don Cox [log in to unmask] Actually the Gramophone Company in the U.K. started doing recording from a "lorry" -- meaning a truck -- VERY early on in electrical recording. Ernst Lough & Temple Choir "Hear My Prayer" was a HUGE hit recorded in that lorry. The Melba Farewell and Chaliapin concerts likewise. And the Chaliapin concert seems to have been recorded in accidental stereo. Mike Biel [log in to unmask]