The Broadcast Engineering Museum - England

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We have one of the Marconi Mk II cameras that was used at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We are making a special display around it for our open days. The photo shows a Mk II camera in the triforium at Westminster Abbey with senior cameraman DRG “Monty” Montague.

In a book written to commemorate Richard Dimbleby, the BBC's TV chief commentator at the Coronation, Montague wrote: "I used to enter with a sort of Groucho Marx straddle and make for the box seat where I could straighten up sitting down – a paradox this, but comfortably true"