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'The Sweeney' TV Series - The British Flying Squad.

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  • barryt007barryt007
    edited June 2017 Posts: 19,339
    Interesting !

    So these radios weren't standard issue for the police,or Special Branch,Sweeney ,in 1975 ? :

    john-thaw-dennis-waterman-the-sweeney-1975-c8cy5f.jpg

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  • stagstag In the thick of it!
    Posts: 1,053
    No, not my force anyway. As I said, the handsets were like telephone receivers, black in colour. The only similarity is the curled cord. They could have used them in the Met though so the photos may not be inaccurate. I'm guessing at the science bit, but I presume telephone style handsets would be better for listening to in heavy noise situations, as the speaker was pressed directly to the ear? The one's shown in the photo would have had a separate speaker (fixed into the body of the radio set?), imagine trying to listen to incoming transmissions in a vehicle with a siren blaring?
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Yes I know the phones you mean ,and I can see your point about the radios as well...something else confusing now haha !!
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
    edited June 2017 Posts: 3,144
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Yes I know the phones you mean ,and I can see your point about the radios as well...something else confusing now haha !!

    Something like this?
    pye westminster radio
    https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8096/8376843401_0beb62d4df_b.jpg
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Yes I know the phones you mean ,and I can see your point about the radios as well...something else confusing now haha !!

    Something like this?
    pye westminster radio

    No photo ?
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
    Posts: 3,144
    Sorry I thought it had posted, fixed now with a working link supper got in the way.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Sorry I thought it had posted, fixed now with a working link supper got in the way.

    Thanks pal..i would say that is later than '75 but I am more than likely wrong... @stag ?
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
    edited June 2017 Posts: 1,053
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Sorry I thought it had posted, fixed now with a working link supper got in the way.

    Thanks pal..i would say that is later than '75 but I am more than likely wrong... @stag ?

    No, timescale wise that is correct, and with the handset I mentioned. Our vehicle didn't have the same speaker mounting setup though. I've just had a 'Duh' moment. The handsets could be interchanged, so I guess instead of the telephone type, they could be interchanged with the 'walkie talkie' type, but I have never seen the type as featured in your photographs of Regan on the radio in use in real life - that is not to say they weren't used but I never knew of them.

    Any photos of the personal radios used by 'The Sweeney' TV show?

  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    stag wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    Sorry I thought it had posted, fixed now with a working link supper got in the way.

    Thanks pal..i would say that is later than '75 but I am more than likely wrong... @stag ?

    No, timescale wise that is correct, and with the handset I mentioned. Our vehicle didn't have the same speaker mounting setup though. I've just had a 'Duh' moment. The handsets could be interchanged, so I guess instead of the telephone type, they could be interchanged with the 'walkie talkie' type, but I have never seen the type as featured in your photographs of Regan on the radio in use in real life - that is not to say they weren't used but I never knew of them.

    Any photos of the personal radios used by 'The Sweeney' TV show?

    Good question...I will have a look if I can find one or two.

  • barryt007barryt007
    edited June 2017 Posts: 19,339
    Nothing on the radios yet but I found this fascinating link that shows photos which you can enlarge,of EVERY vehicle seen during episodes of The Sweeney.

    @stag will be like a kid in a sweetshop when he sees this :

    http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiToJGIy9HUAhWOHsAKHVSEAAYQFgg8MAM&url=http://www.imcdb.org/movie_71059-The-Sweeney.html&usg=AFQjCNH8dYhSOY4YwFO70h8x7ouIdcbslw

    It also shows lots of background of 1970's London,all the markets etc.
    Brings back a lot of memories of my childhood.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    stag wrote: »
    I've never seen The Sweeney films - in fact I didn't know there were any.

    Any progress on tracking down the reason for the lights thing? It's still bugging me as to why they did't use lights on the show.

    I just bought both Sweeney films on Amazon for £7.59 box set...not many left ,so you might want to grab a copy !
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
    Posts: 1,053
    @barry007 thanks for that, but I don't do the internet purchasing thing. I don't use cards for a start (don't trust 'em). I can get the films via traditional means.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    https://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/3946/the-sweeney
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    stag wrote: »
    @barry007 thanks for that, but I don't do the internet purchasing thing. I don't use cards for a start (don't trust 'em). I can get the films via traditional means.
    stag wrote: »
    @barry007 thanks for that, but I don't do the internet purchasing thing. I don't use cards for a start (don't trust 'em). I can get the films via traditional means.
    No ,its all good..im Amazon Prime and its arrived .
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