By: mike currill - 13th December 2007 at 14:19
You must be about the same age as me then. I remember those too. Our local theatres and cinemas had them in the foyer.
By: 25deg south - 13th December 2007 at 12:56
As a kid in the early 50’s I seem to recall the name was used as a descriptor on RAF bases. Long red conical extinquishers, bracket-mounted vertically with the name on a gold background as per the van.
It brings back memories of frequent escorted visits to the station guard room , which had one on the wall outside………
By: mike currill - 13th December 2007 at 12:03
Pyrene, now there’s a blast from the past. I remember they used to make CTC filled extigushers which had a handle you gave a 1/4 turn anticlockwise to unlock and pumped the contents out. As I recall they were gold painted but the army used to paint them in ‘bronze green’ ( colour reminiscent of British Racing Green) in the days before we got BCF extinguishers which came painted green from the factory.
By: Bluebird Mike - 13th December 2007 at 10:09
Yup, it’s Pyrene and this one is nailed, thanks!
(We were after the name of the company that did Bluebird’s fire system in 1966- the logo appears on her fire panel in the cockpit and on this van, and no one could make it out)
By: Newforest - 13th December 2007 at 09:31
Maybe Pyrotec, if so the company still exists today.
No, definitely Pyrene and that’s a Hillman?
By: mike currill - 13th December 2007 at 09:03
Maybe Pyrotec, if so the company still exists today.
By: Bluebird Mike - 9th December 2007 at 22:07
Brilliant- David, THANK YOU! 😎
By: David Burke - 9th December 2007 at 21:10
By: David Burke - 9th December 2007 at 21:06
‘Pyrene’ maybe?
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