RE: PH Carpool: Thornycroft Nubian Major

[M666 EVO]

Is he about 14??

Epic first car, er fire truck thing. Brilliant!

More like this please

[BrettMRC]

Nice buy

We have a Mat' and thats a similar experience to drive - but a little more agricultural!

Hope to see the beast at some shows this year then?

[mph1977]

williamp said:

Thats great. Well done. Are you going to get a 6 wheeled range rover as a rapid response vehicle? My work experience was at an airfield, and sometimes invovled riding around in one of those.

a TACR 2 would be rather later than a mk 6 and Mk 7 ( the Nubian being the basis for the mark 7 iirc ) - the one-ton series II based landrover TACR would be more the correct period

a TACR 2 would be more likely paired with later machines

[TORQ]

Awesome vehicle, great purchase. Any pics of the engine?

A mate of mine will love this, he is a fire engine collector/ obsessive.

His last purchase was an ex airport 6 Wheel Range Rover.

[Krikkit]

ewenm said:

What does 6x6 actually mean? 6 wheel drive? 6 wheels drive x 6 wheel steer?

6x6 is a 6-wheeled 6 wheel-drive vehicle, a 6x4 would be a 6 wheeled 4 wheel-drive one.

[AlexiusG55]

Is there some exemption (due to it being either historic or still a functioning fire-engine) that allows you to drive it on the road with functional blue lights?

[mph1977]

AlexiusG55 said:

Is there some exemption (due to it being either historic or still a functioning fire-engine) that allows you to drive it on the road with functional blue lights?

it's a fully functioning fire appliance ...

using the lights and claiming exemptions without good reason would be frowned on

[phugleigh]

/jedi voice on: I'd like some parts for a Thornycroft Nubian Major please.....
/jedi voice off

[lgw]

We had 4 of those back in the 70's at the Airport I worked at, fantastic exhaust sound so loud, we had to get rid of them when the response times were reduced from 50 seconds to 50mph to less than forty seconds,
Good Memories

Replaced them with these

Edited by lgw on Thursday 16th February 18:47

Edited by lgw on Thursday 16th February 18:48

[AlexiusG55]

mph1977 said:

it's a fully functioning fire appliance ...

using the lights and claiming exemptions without good reason would be frowned on

I just thought they had to be covered/removed when on the road like with old police cars- but it makes sense that they're not given that fire appliances are sometimes operated by private companies (like at airports) who might have to move them on the road.

[V8 FOU]

Sooo, as a, ahem, airport vehicle etc, can you run it on red diesel?
That'd save a few bob at 80p /litre!!

Brilliant "appliance" though!!

Always think of an appliance as one of those ancient truss things you had to wear for a hernia...

[lgw]

They were called Airport Crash Tenders years ago, the words Crash and Airports don't put a good vision in your mind so it was changed to Appliance

[xxplod]

[quote=V8 FOU]Sooo, as a, ahem, airport vehicle etc, can you run it on red diesel?
That'd save a few bob at 80p /litre!!

You'd never be caught if you did!

[williamp]

V8 FOU said:

Brilliant "appliance" though!!

This is the big problem I have with the fire brigade. When I become president, they will all be known as fire engines, not "appliances"

Anyhow, has anyone seen these:

So 1980s, so fantastically futuristic.


And there is one for sale! Come on James, do the decent thing: buy one, then let us have a ride in it!

[tommy vercetti]

Haha excellent

[jdizl]

DR10 said:

What sort of power does it produce?

Edit: Google tells me 288 BHP

Edited by DR10 on Thursday 16th February 13:32

we got told somewhere around the 300 mark, but its mainly the torque that makes it unstoppable!

james

[jdizl]

ewenm said:

What does 6x6 actually mean? 6 wheel drive? 6 wheels drive x 6 wheel steer?

Cool truck though

6 wheels, and the engine drives all of them. the front two do the steering.

james

[jdizl]

M666 EVO said:

Is he about 14??

Epic first car, er fire truck thing. Brilliant!

More like this please

• 15 thanks!

james

[jdizl]

BrettMRC said:

Nice buy

We have a Mat' and thats a similar experience to drive - but a little more agricultural!

Hope to see the beast at some shows this year then?

yeah we have a mat too and a mk1 mill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZjI942qbI

thats my mat

james

[mph1977]

AlexiusG55 said:

mph1977 said:

it's a fully functioning fire appliance ...

using the lights and claiming exemptions without good reason would be frowned on

I just thought they had to be covered/removed when on the road like with old police cars- but it makes sense that they're not given that fire appliances are sometimes operated by private companies (like at airports) who might have to move them on the road.

the fact is that an old police car is highly unlikely to be used for police purposes, where an 'old' fire appliance is still perfectly capable of throwing the wet stuff at the hot stuff, the law makes specific references to ambulances as meeting certain characteristics hence, they can be fitted with blues etc if they meet the definition ( so unfortunately all those camper conversion that still have blues and twos probably don't have them legitimiately.

however using warning devices and claiming exemptions without good reason is not liked and can even get serving personnel driving in service vehicles for the statutory service in the crap, and remember claiming exemptions does not exempt you from DWDCA/ Careless / Dangerous and an injury accident involving a vehicle on lights will be crawling with CIU very very rapidly.