My HUW

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Nick


“…..Having looked at your site, and my general interest in the subject as a whole, have you got any closer to finding a recording unit? I know that most of the equipment stayed in Italy, but there must be something somewhere. Phonographic recorders seem to have vanished off the face of the earth. I would love to find some of that sort of kit...Incidently, browsing issue 4 of Wheels & Tracks, I spotted your HUP. Darn magazine is almost as old as I am
Thanks again,….”

Yes, I have tracked down most of the recording gear, recorder unit, mixer amp, and mic cable/amp set, so I’m much closer to having all the gear to put in the truck but once it is mounted in the truck it will cut into my off roading. I’d have to remove the recording and mixer if I want to keep them in working condition. Have to get the Pattern 12 done so I’ll still have something to drive off road.

It looks like at least some of the CBC recording units that were in Italy were pulled out and ship around to Northern Europe because the same truck show up in pictures both in Italy and Holland moving into Endem. Several of the recording units have come up in the last few years on E-Bay some times they sell sometimes they don’t and prices vary widely from around $200 to well over a $1000. One turned up here in New Hampshire a few months ago that I was bidding on and it looked like I was going to get it for about $150 when at the very end some collects got bidding and in the end it went to Korea to some collector for about $1200. In talking with the guy here in New Hampshire he was amazed I helped him figure out how to rap and box the thing to ship.

Yes, I can remember when Wheels and Tracks first came out with the articles on HUPs great stuff. Bart Vanderveen was a really interesting guy and a true gentlemen in the old school sense of the word. Yup I’ve had my HUP for a lot of years now a real part of the family you would not believe how many family photographs it turns up in. Below is one I took this morning.

Glad you enjoy my website, thanks for the comments