(Historic) airfield support vehicles

After changing my avtar to my favourite Landrover and receiving a request from Linc7 for more;)

I thought I would knock up a thread for Historic airfield support vehicles, this can be fire engines, refuellers, ambulances, etc. These can be vehicles you have driven yourself or something spotted on the internet. The only proviso is that it is no longer in service

Recently I did a few sideviews of some Landrovers that I drove in the past and a few photos to go with them.

Mods. not sure if this is the right forum:confused:

I will start with a Series III Landrover that has long since gone but, to me was my favourite ‘weapon of choice’

73 AM 04 was already ‘tired’ when I was posted into RAF St Mawgan September 1981 and had suffered some neglect, however, when the RAF set up BCUs under TG9 (AATCs) it became (very) intergrated with Air Traffic Control. This meant more pride in the job and equipment seemed to last longer (!) I looked after this vehicle from 1981 through to 1984 and spent many thousands of hours in her, cruising the airfield. This was the Landrover involved with the Nimrod fire in 1983.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=95115&page=15 post 436

In the following picture, I had painted her (by 4″ brush) in IRR green paint and the speaker with (aircraft) dayglo paint. The yellow stripes were (stick on) scrounged off MT as were the roundals front and back.
The scuff on the front bumper was due to nudging a broken down vehicle off the runway.

On another occasion mid-84 whilst driving down the southern taxiway, Air traffic radio’ed and said “Sappho, you’re on fire!” , I could then see a glow reflecting off the tarmac, I pulled into the fire section (they were playing volleyball) and placed it in the middle of their volleyball court. The guy in the control room after hearing ATCs call and seeing me pull in, rushed through the section picking up an extinguisher and promptly put it out. She was back on the run the following week.

I left St Mawgan 1984 and returned 1988 during that time she left the service.