With
the battle weary Green Goddess making another appearance on the streets
we thought it would be a good idea to start this page which can include
any tales and pictures from the current situation or from 1977 or indeed
any times that they have been deployed, for example pumping out floods
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O.K.
I'll start the ball rolling with my clips from 1977, you'll have to
excuse the quality of them they were taken from
slides...................................
I did my
nine week stint in Kendal and the first picture shows SYH 292, It would be
nice to hear from
anyone who knows where it is now.
Update
07.05.06 After a bizarre twist of
fate I have now bought SYH 292 - Full details here
Next up
is a shot of the 'entire' team, a Police escort to the front and a
Landrover 101 carrying some first aid appliance equipment to the rear.
Practicing
usually took the form of putting out the local river, or even more daring,
chasing up into the hills to attack a road sign.
The boys needed no excuse to play with their hoses.
And finally the mugshots, do you recognise anyone?
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Steve
Colhoun sent this picture of PGW 447 based at Llanelli in Wales!
She is seen in a housing estate checking out hydrants prior to the strike
on 13th of November 2002.
I would like to congratulate
Cpl
Mick Kent for his appearance on HTV Wales news program Dated 23rd
November 2002, where his impressive rear was spotted climbing in and out a Green Goddess.
Now that Rick Waller has been kicked off celebrity fat club I feel it is only time before he gets the call... once again well done
Mick, keep up the good work!!!!
Love from Port Talbot
B shift
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Green
Goddesses at Cottesmore prior to
deployment in 2002.
North Luffenham detatchment 2002
My Goddess is "Danii" SYH121
Ian Boldy (MTD) drives "Kylie" NYV811
Hello Bill and
Ian, I have a tale to tell about a laugh we had recently involving our GG and a police
escort car.
This tale involves a Green Goddess and the police car which escorts it to incidents. It is currently operating from an anonymous MOD base and both vehicles are stored in a shed when not in use. Myself and the other driver had just returned from a few days stand down and went to give the Green Goddess a good check over. We were handed an envelope containing both the keys for the GG and the police car. Naturally our human curiosity took over and we decided to have a practice doing some response driving with the Green Goddess and police car around the base. Of course we had to have the works switched on, blues and twos, flashing headlights etc!! All was going fine until we returned to the storage shed to discover a
Volvo T5 traffic car with two real policemen waiting for us, clipboard in hand, to take particulars of the theft and misuse of the said police vehicle!! I can tell you we saw our careers flash before us! Fortunately we
persuaded the two coppers that they would have done the same had they been in our position. Funny enough we had one of them as our escort driver for real to a fire the next day! We even let him have a go at driving our Green Goddess on base to return the
favour!
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Hello guys, I will try and send some
photo's again. I am back on 2MT and this is a picture of all the 2MT drivers covering the strike in North Wales. Based at Sealand I have had a boring time of it but elsewhere the lads have been busy and I'm sure there will be tales to come.
Although Richard Thompson isn't an MT driver he has given permission to use these pictures from his website which covers emergency vehicles in the UK.
This engine is on standby a few hours before the start of the strike in Chester-le-Street, County Durham. It was
built on the Bedford S chassis between 1953-6 and can attain 50 mph with its four-wheel drive system.
SYH 135, on standby during the strikes. The two small circles above the windscreen were used to show amber lights
when responding to emergencies, a forerunner of the modern blue lights.
The rear view showing inlet and outlet controls.
A
Green Goddess responding to a call...................
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followed by a BART.
Two further pumps attend to the front of the store.
The next
two photographs were taken at the scene of a major shop fire in Lewisham, South London. This first photo shows a Green Goddess parked up next to the rear of the property. A
soldier is cooling the door near the seat of the fire.
Thankyou Richard - Ian
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Hi Bill and Ian,
Another picture for the Green Goddess section of the website! Featuring
the GG and slightly more modern Scania, along with the Police escort car
attached to Llanelli and Llangennech in Mid-West Wales.
