Fire Engines Photos

Thankyou Graham, a rare beast this, you haven't got the reg no. by any chance have you?

Added by John Stott on 22 June 2009.

Just when you think the Green Godess can't get any better, Graham gives us this beauty !

What a great looking Bedford, hope she is alive and well somewhere !

Added by John Johnstone on 22 June 2009.

John, I don't have the reg no. I only took this one photo.

Added by Graham Willey on 22 June 2009.

The Registration of this was PGW272. I have a purchased photo of this machine, so unfortunately I can't post it here.

Added by Chris Hall Teesside. UK. on 22 June 2009.

I think it was PGW 272 - it came to my station Scunthorpe when our spare Water Tender - converted to a foam tender Bedford TK RBE 608G went off the run, the CFO promised us a 'new' FoT and this arrived ! it had a sign painted on the dash saying 'danger do not exceed 30mph' and was an utter pig to drive(because it was so slow) - it had a foam tank fitted in the transverse pump locker and so many extra dials and levers and valves that no one knew how to make it work properly ! the div admin officer even reversed her brigade car into it one day - it wrote the car off and bent a lever on the FoT !
having said all that I look at it know and think what a nice machine - full of character ! but I bet I have nightmares tonight - thank you Graham

Added by Rick Loudon on 22 June 2009.

Thanks lads, I have no record of it after 1965. Sounds like a dog Rick but filled with good intent as well as compound!

Added by John Stott on 23 June 2009.

Oh yes I forgot that, the clever fitters at Hull City Fire Brigade used a steel tank for the foam compound and in time it 'ate its way ' through it and left nice big thick black deposits on the appliance room floor !

Added by Rick Loudon on 23 June 2009.

Made me laugh that Rick! Can you imagine that on a modern station? Contain spillage, specialist firm come to remove it and ten forms to fill in! Oh for the old days and the smell of compound!

Added by John Stott on 24 June 2009.

@ John - this was in service, based (bizarrely) at Central Station into the 1970s

Added by Tim Edwards on 02 December 2009.

Cardiff also re-purposed a Green Goddess as a foam tender, but it was traditional red. No idea if it had the same problems!

It replaced a reconfigured WWII NFS heavy unit pumper, and was probably an improvement...

Added by Rob Johnson on 16 February 2017.

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