Consuta now fitted with a petrol engine was hired by the BBC for the first attempt to provide live televised pictures of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race in 1949.

This page is copied from the Practical Mechanics magazine.

Raymond Baxter talking to John Snagg on board Consuta.

The aerial provided the shore link of the TV camera picture.

Below note the heavy equipment that was used in these days. This was before the age of the semiconductor, all equipment would be using the thermionic valve which was bulky and power hungry.

All this equipment for just one camera and the comentator