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John ... glad we were only stuck with our share then 🙂 (DTels was organised on a regional basis) ..... when you walked into that massive shed and saw the rows and rows of them stretching away, and knowing you had the same PM to do on every one, that was more than enough 😁

By 2004 I'd been 15 years living in my woods up here and they'd been someone else's problem 🙂

Presume there were other teams from other departments PM-ing the mechanicals, pumps etc who we never saw .... lot of continuous work for a back-up .... but if they'd been needed we'd have been glad of them!

K

Image, I saw a hanger full of green goddesses in Marston Moor near Tadcaster (about 30 years ago)

David Byrne

There were some there (or Thorpe Arch, I forget?) .... the majority of the one's we did were at Branston at the massive old food factory turned HO central storage. I was based at Kippax east of Leeds.

K

I commanded a Green Goddess (call sign Bruce's Basher), massive pump on wheels, in the center of Birmingham during the Fireman's strike. An interesting deployment with a Christmas in Brum, called out 3 times on Christmas Day so we never did get our dinner. The radios sort of worked just couldn't understand the Brummy accent of the dispatchers and the Police outriders went off at warp factor six leaving us doing our 20-30mph (with a following wind) so relied on the good old A-Z

Image, some were at Tockwith also, at the time I was an engineer working in Tadcaster and we were approached to maintain them.

David Byrne

B3MOG .... I wondered who maintained the vehicles ... because there were security issues the radio stuff was done in-house .... but never got to see how the rest of them were kept up.

I think there was a wartime hangover where they were dispersed at various sites but eventually logistics meant they were largely concentrated at Branston.

Proper basic old things, they do sometimes come up on the market.

K

Too many image tags Bert! Nice picture