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West Riding bought a batch of ex Home Office Goddesses and tried out different colours on them
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Added by Neal Glover on 04 February 2020.
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Added by Neal Glover on 04 February 2020.
Neal: Do you happen to know how long they were operational?
On the plus side, they were about the only 4X4 chassis available and they did have a powerful 900 GPM pump.
On the minus side, there was nowhere to store BA sets in the cab, the tank was only 300 IG, the gantry did not accommodate more than one extension ladder and the portable pump was a beast - which needed four pretty fit firefighters to move it around!
In addition, they were not famously fast, but I for one think this all white example looks all right...
It was not easy being green!
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 February 2020.
On the plus side, they were about the only 4X4 chassis available and they did have a powerful 900 GPM pump.
On the minus side, there was nowhere to store BA sets in the cab, the tank was only 300 IG, the gantry did not accommodate more than one extension ladder and the portable pump was a beast - which needed four pretty fit firefighters to move it around!
In addition, they were not famously fast, but I for one think this all white example looks all right...
It was not easy being green!
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 February 2020.
Were they not designed primarily as relay pumpers though ? Hence lack of the above features.
Added by CraigW on 14 March 2020.
Added by CraigW on 14 March 2020.
I know Cardiff used one as a foam tender, after modifying it for this role. It is pictured on this site. Interestingly, it replaced a wartime NFS heavy unit, which had also been similarly modified to fill the role of foam tender by the brigade workshops.
So, history repeated itself!
But the original Green Goddess design was meant for tackling major wartime structure fires, as you say, so a lot of the features which a county brigade would be looking for are indeed missing.
One good reason to use them was cost, along with the fact that most had very little mileage, but I do wonder how much they had to be modified to be as useful as they needed to be?
Added by Rob Johnson on 20 March 2020.
So, history repeated itself!
But the original Green Goddess design was meant for tackling major wartime structure fires, as you say, so a lot of the features which a county brigade would be looking for are indeed missing.
One good reason to use them was cost, along with the fact that most had very little mileage, but I do wonder how much they had to be modified to be as useful as they needed to be?
Added by Rob Johnson on 20 March 2020.
In 1976 we were pumping non stop for 5 weeks supplying water to a peat bog fire. Petrol and engine oil was replenished whilst it was still pumping. At night the cab glowed eerily from the dull red exhaust manifold. It did what it said on the tin - pumped a lot of water for a long time with virtually no maintenance.
Added by on 25 March 2020.
Added by on 25 March 2020.
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Added by Neal Glover on 04 February 2020.