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Simon Gloster Shelvoke Merryweather Airfield
1979 Badged Shelvoke SPV Merryweather aircraft crash tender MPW 220V but maybe Simon Gloster Saro Airfield crash tender. It was seconded to the Royal Aerospace Establishment site at Farnborough during the 1992 Farnborough Airshow. By 1997 was based at Cranfield Airport. Photo taken 12/09/1992 outside the fire station.
Ed: Shelvoke chassis; Merryweather bodywork; maybe Simon monitor, or some other aspect of the fire engineering. Norwich airport had a Shelvoke/Merryweather branded Musketeer
1979 Badged Shelvoke SPV Merryweather aircraft crash tender MPW 220V but maybe Simon Gloster Saro Airfield crash tender. It was seconded to the Royal Aerospace Establishment site at Farnborough during the 1992 Farnborough Airshow. By 1997 was based at Cranfield Airport. Photo taken 12/09/1992 outside the fire station.
Ed: Shelvoke chassis; Merryweather bodywork; maybe Simon monitor, or some other aspect of the fire engineering. Norwich airport had a Shelvoke/Merryweather branded Musketeer
Hi Petros, I presume this went to Cranfield after being used as a loan vehicle by Simons. I saw it in use at Bristol Airport many years ago. I did not know about the Sun/Cranfield model.
Added by Bristol Bob on 22 June 2020.
Added by Bristol Bob on 22 June 2020.
MPW220V for searching. Pinterest lists it as Gloster Saro. The picture there is in red Cranfield livery.
Added by Petros on 31 August 2022.
Added by Petros on 31 August 2022.
The other Norwich Merryweather Musketeer was MPW221V. This features in the new book of crash tenders self published by Andrew Henry and Ron Henderson, highly recommended. Machine ended up at City of Derry airport see
www.onsceneni.co.uk/airport?pgid=loe01etj2-8bf16f12-7ff3-44bb-b36f-9fc79d59eacb
The Cranfield machine (220) is pictured here - wrongly labelled unless the machine was refurbed by Simon Gloster Saro which is quite likely:
www.transportphotos.com/photo/VS00144
Added by Petros on 05 May 2024.
www.onsceneni.co.uk/airport?pgid=loe01etj2-8bf16f12-7ff3-44bb-b36f-9fc79d59eacb
The Cranfield machine (220) is pictured here - wrongly labelled unless the machine was refurbed by Simon Gloster Saro which is quite likely:
www.transportphotos.com/photo/VS00144
Added by Petros on 05 May 2024.
Shelvoke
Ed Cranfield livery on Flickr as is my diecast model of Merryweather Musketeer by Sun Models.
Added by Bristol Bob on 22 June 2020.