detector van

"What about the detector vans, they be right with you?"

Radio detector vans would not be the only reason.

But a detector van makes most licence dodgers think twice.

At 2 am a senior police officer alerted radio detector vans to track down the gang.

I must get rid of the detector van."

Still broadcasting, I imagine, because a moment later the detector van hurtled by in pursuit of the truck.

There was the whine of an approaching siren and a detector van came hurtling down the road.

The Gestapo were manoeuvring the third detector van into position, so the position of the radio could be pinpointed exactly.

She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea, West London.

'Caught by the detector van'

Zennor knew that the Navy had spies, all those detector vans had been evidence of that.

To police these unlicensed stations the GPO evolved its own force of detectives and "detector vans".

However, she has trouble getting a transmission through and ends up staying on air long enough for her radio location to be pinpointed by a German detector van.

One old chap wrapped his set in aluminium cooking foil and put clingfilm over the screen, thinking the detector van would be unable to pick up the signals.

The BBC states 'television detector vans' are employed by TV Licensing in the UK.

The British Broadcasting Corporation's television licensing group, for example, deploys so-called detector vans to drive down residential streets and detect oscillator signals from televisions inside homes.

P.T.V. Detector Vans Are In Your Area!

Ver in de ruimte buiten bereik van de detectors van Cliaand.

'For instance, 7.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays is a good time to go out with the TV detector van because EastEnders is on.

Although the BBC refuses to say how many detector vans are in its fleet, according to one source there may be as few as 11 in the whole country .

'Visits by our officers can result either from the use of detector vans or follow-ups from computer records of who has and who doesn't have a TV licence.'

Hugo Rune, The Book of Ultimate Truths The boy Rizla, Rune's acolyte and popper-out for Chinese takeaways, once forced open the rear of a TV detector van at his master's behest.

Capita Group, the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities, has been given a new lease of life by John Major's re-election.

If aunty Beeb is so popular you won't lose any income and you won't have to waste money on licence enforcement and 'detector vans' (yeah right, who believes that fairy story anymore); evaders won't be able to watch for free.

TV detector vans have in the past featured heavily in TV Licensing publicity, highlighting that technology capable of detecting signals from operating TV sets is employed, and TV Licensing has claimed to have developed a hand-held detector.