'Green Goddess' Fleet For Sale

[Bush Tucker Man]

Or part of it at least.....

Yorkshire Post article, this morning

They'll have been kept 'On The Button', no expense spared.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Vendors Web-Site

[Range Rover Blues]

Boo Hoo, I want one.

[datalas]

doesn't this mean that if the fire brigade strike again we'll be protected by the AA equiped with three fire extinguishers and a bucket ?

[Bush Tucker Man]

doesn't this mean that if the fire brigade strike again we'll be protected by the AA equiped with three fire extinguishers and a bucket ?

New regulations (read; Bully Boy tactics) pushed through after the last strike have given 'the powers that be' the ability to comandeer the appliances in the fire-stations

[hingmy]

No regulations (read; Bully Boy tactics) pushed through after the last strike have given 'the powers that be' the ability to comandeer the appliances in the fire-stations[/quote]

How truly terrifying - squadies loos e in summatt that size that'll go that fast.........

[hobbit]

Actually they already have some of the older civilian pump units scattered around, the TA unit down the road from me has a couple of them in long term parking in their yard

Green goddesses are nice to look at but dogs to drive, when loaded, mind you they would make good portable jet washers though  :twisted:

[Sooty]

All well and good comandeering the regular appliances but will they be trained on how to use the equipment?
With all due respect to our lads in the armed forces I can just imagine the mess a hand fisted squadie with a set of power croppers can make to a nice new BMW mini thingy :roll:
Hope we never have to find out [-o<

[datalas]

All well and good comandeering the regular appliances but will they be trained on how to use the equipment?
With all due respect to our lads in the armed forces I can just imagine the mess a hand fisted squadie with a set of power croppers can make to a nice new BMW mini thingy :roll:
Hope we never have to find out [-o<

depends, if it's only mini's they go after I'm quite looking forward to it

[Bush Tucker Man]

All well and good comandeering the regular appliances but will they be trained on how to use the equipment?
With all due respect to our lads in the armed forces I can just imagine the mess a hand fisted squadie with a set of power croppers can make to a nice new BMW mini thingy :roll:
Hope we never have to find out [-o<

depends, if it's only mini's they go after I'm quite looking forward to it

Any B*W product would do (present LR company excepted, of course)

[hobbit]

I was involved in the fire strike back in 1977,  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Dunno what the last one was like, but it was amusing back then, training?

There's the fire, there's the hose, there's the valve! Good luck.

Most of us only got one days training, on the old goddesses, it was interesting to see if the fire went out before we got there in these old beasts  :lol:

[karlo]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: I know this is an old thread but i worked at the green goddess site or rather i do until september this year, most of them have gone to withams specialist vehicles apart from some that are being donated to third world countries.

[hobbit]

Would that have been hilton cvd?

[karlo]

No matey Marchington which is between Burton on Trent & uttoxeter before that they were kept at Branston at Burton on Trent!



And yep, i'm in there somewhere....... :lol:

[littlepow]

All well and good comandeering the regular appliances but will they be trained on how to use the equipment?
With all due respect to our lads in the armed forces I can just imagine the mess a hand fisted squadie with a set of power croppers can make to a nice new BMW mini thingy :roll:

In defence of the MOD, all service personnel used for crash rescue teams were fully trained on the use of specialist equipment. All drivers of the fire engines had to pass the same blue light course given to the emergency services.
The ability to adapted to changing enviroments and rolls is a requirement of all service personnel.

[hobbit]

In defence of the MOD, all service personnel used for crash rescue teams were fully trained on the use of specialist equipment. All drivers of the fire engines had to pass the same blue light course given to the emergency services.
The ability to adapted to changing enviroments and rolls is a requirement of all service personnel.

 :lol: True nowadays but when there was a strike back in 1979, it was a different kettle of fish, but mind you they only let us loose on the goddess vehicles

It was the same on the ambulance strike that happened around the same time, we were out in the ambulance stations but with old S2 ambulances, with a police escort, quite amusing seeing the car shoot off, and us poodling along at 20 mph, took them a while to learn that we could ot keep up with them. All the modern ambulances were there, but not allowed to touch them. The only thing We managed to get was a blue light and 2 tones of a written off one, and wire them in to out old banger, yes we didnn't have any on the ambulances we had :?