Fire Appliances

[t-tony]

@andyglym I seem to recall you mentioned a while ago about a large collection of Fire Appliances and Rescue vehicles located at Scunthorpe (part of the old Steel works site?). Anyway it was on BBC Look North last night that it looks like it will be broken up due to funding problems so if you want to see it in it's entirety you'd best do it soon mate.

Tony.

 

[andyglym]

@andyglym I seem to recall you mentioned a while ago about a large collection of Fire Appliances and Rescue vehicles located at Scunthorpe (part of the old Steel works site?). Anyway it was on BBC Look North last night that it looks like it will be broken up due to funding problems so if you want to see it in it's entirety you'd best do it soon mate.

Tony.

Yeah saw that mate. The main issue is not so much the funding but a permanent home to find. Because it's a temporary home they have limited open days, when the next dates get posted up I'll make a note. It'll be a sad National loss, 50+ fire engines from the 1920's on and thousands of bits of kit

Cheers Tony

 

[Robert Wiles]

Sad to see a collection like that potentially broken up. MrsW and I were in Jersey last week and visited a transport museum there. It's the collection of a man who worked with machinery all his life and ended up owning a motor and agricultural engineering business on the island. All sorts of stuff from very early Fordson tractors, stationary engines, American army vehicles from the liberation at the end of the war, commercial vehicles, 50s/60s cars and lots of old farm implements. A window on a world gone by. It's great to see this stuff preserved for future generations.

 

[andyglym]

Sad to see a collection like that potentially broken up. MrsW and I were in Jersey last week and visited a transport museum there. It's the collection of a man who worked with machinery all his life and ended up owning a motor and agricultural engineering business on the island. All sorts of stuff from very early Fordson tractors, stationary engines, American army vehicles from the liberation at the end of the war, commercial vehicles, 50s/60s cars and lots of old farm implements. A window on a world gone by. It's great to see this stuff preserved for future generations.

Indeed. Steve Shirley, recently Retired RAF Fire Service Station Manager started the collection years ago and its been growing ever since with the help of many.