Can anyone help in the history of this unusual Emitron camera that was rescued from a basement car park at TVC in 2012.
Little is known about the camera, why and when was it developed, what was it's purpose? What were the pipes on the front for?  it has sights on the top in-line with the Emitron tube.  
I have traced it to Kingwood Warren in 1950.  It featured in a BBC Newsreel "Improving the View", tx 23rd October 1950.  But after that it's whereabouts is a mystery until it was discovered at TVC in 2012.
As can be seen from the screen grabs it appears to take a standard post-war Emitron tube.

[url]Screen Shot 2018-10-19 at 00.58.52 by Alexandra Palace Television Society, on Flickr[/url]

[url]Screen Shot 2018-10-19 at 00.58.35 by Alexandra Palace Television Society, on Flickr[/url]

[url]Screen Shot 2018-10-14 at 21.07.13 by Alexandra Palace Television Society, on Flickr[/url]

Screen Shot 2018-10-14 at 20.59.24 by Alexandra Palace Television Society, on Flickr

[url]Emitron by Alexandra Palace Television Society, on Flickr[/url]


Hopefully someone knows something about this unusual Emitron design and what it was used for.