BELL & HOWELL 652 & 655 TQ 16mm sound

Two projectors in the later 600 series dating around the 1960’s/70’s era. The 652 had, what was standard by then, a fibre blimp. Even from the 640 range improvements had been made to the intermittent, light and optics. Much of the gearing in these projectors was now plastic. The lamp is a 1000watt and spool capacity 1600feet. Unfortunately like many projectors from this model onwards there were problems in later years with the worm gear as has occurred with this projector which until recently was in use as a demo machine.

The 655TQ is quite a different projector. The lamp is Quartz with a greater output. Automatic threading is a feature of this machine but like most others of this type extracting the film in an emergency is not easy. Excellent projection qualities especially to large audiences with good light output and clear sound reproduction.