www.witham-sv.com/GREEN%20GODDESS.htm
But they've only got 40 for sale - can't they find the others?
VB
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I used to drive the variants of this Ford V8 chassis as Civil Defence Rescue and Headquarters vehicles. Crash gearbox. No thanks.
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VB,
No, no and thrice no.
Have you ever had to drive the umbiquous Bedford MK/MJ, otherwise known as a Army 4 tonner.Have a go if you wish to buy a GG and afterwards you,ll realise just how agricultural these vehicles are.Green goddess's i imagine are even worse, as they belong to the earlier generation of Bedford vehicles.
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We used to yearn for an upgrade to the Bedford, or the rumoured Thames Trader. Only the Austin/Morris J4 was worse.
And the Austin Gipsy, supposed to compete with the Land Rover. We used it for field cable laying. It was acceptable if you didn't take it into a field. They'll be on the market too, Rolls engine and all.
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We used to yearn for an upgrade to the Bedford, or the rumoured Thames Trader.
Ahh the Thames Trader. Guaranteed a smashed left elbow unless you could disjoint your shoulder while changing from 3rd to 2nd.
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Alyn Beattie
I\'m sane, it\'s the rest of the world that\'s mad.
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bikemade3, I think you'll find it was a 3 tonner (depending on how far back you go). Our Flight Sergeant explained that there were three types of 3-tonner. There was a 15 cwt 3-tonner, a 30 cwt 3-tonner and a 3-ton 3-tonner.
(For modern metric types, 30 cwt was half of 3 tons and 15 cwt was a quarter). Confused? We were.
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Whether it is or nor i do not know, but comparing them to Bedford MK/MJ series vehicles would be a fair comparison.
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True enough! We called them Whistling Johnnies, on account of the noise of the differential.
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Just saw one of these about 10 mins ago. It was driving through town covered in election campaign posters. That may have been a bad move though as it kept stalling/not being able to move and was holding up traffic. I wonder how many people are going to associate the politician it was advertising with the nuisance it was causing. 8-)
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Do we still have a reserve fleet of emergency fire appliances, or would the authorities hire them all back from collectors?
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They definitely look to me as being the Bedford "S" type used by the British Army in the 1950s.
They werent crash boxes and were excellent vehicles.
Petrol engined, good brakes and very reliable.
And if maintained in the same manner as the Army did they should be good for another twenty years.
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>>>They should be good for another twenty years.
'Darling?' 'Yes, darling' 'shall we go to Tescos' 'yes, darling' 'marvellous, I'll just steam her up.'
Autre pays, autre temps
'Cherie?' 'Oui' 'il y a un feu la bas' 'Non!' 'Mais oui' 'marvellous, I'll just steam her up.'
ermmmmm, good for what?
Seriously (ish) they come equipped with a dickens of a siren. I remember standing at the Aldwych the last time we had a firemen's strike & wondering whether Mr Hitler's V3 was approaching at a rate of many knots.
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ermmmmm, good for what?
Mappy, Perhaps just good enough to put a ladder up and assist your quaking body down in the event of a fire when the next firemans strike takes place...
After all thats why we have kept them. (not just your body of course) and why are we flogging them off.........
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