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The second NIFB foam appliance. Maybe AEC Mercury?
Taken from a 'Turnout' publication on the brigade in my private collection. Copyright Keith Day and Alan Harper.
Hawker-Siddeley Blue Steel + AEC Mandator
Started privately by AV Roe in 1954, a contract was eventually placed by the Ministry of Supply in 1956 for a stand-off missile to carry a Thermonuclear device with a 1 mega ton yield.
Blue Steel was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Motors both of which were ignited on launch to enable the missile to fly at supersonic speed. It was constructed of stainless steel with the control surfaces manufactured of titanium.
Blue Steel first entered service with 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) in 1962 being carried by Vulcan B2 bombers and subsequently served with 27 and 83 Squadrons (both with Vulcans). In 1964 100 and 139 Squadrons equipped with Victors followed. Blue Steel remained in service with No. 617 Squadron (RAF), as Britain’s nuclear deterrent, until 1970. The Royal Navy took over the deterrent QRA on 30 June 1969 when the third Polaris submarine, HMS Renown, went operational.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/hawker-siddeley...
Hawker-Siddeley Blue Steel + AEC Mandator
Started privately by AV Roe in 1954, a contract was eventually placed by the Ministry of Supply in 1956 for a stand-off missile to carry a Thermonuclear device with a 1 mega ton yield.
Blue Steel was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Motors both of which were ignited on launch to enable the missile to fly at supersonic speed. It was constructed of stainless steel with the control surfaces manufactured of titanium.
Blue Steel first entered service with 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) in 1962 being carried by Vulcan B2 bombers and subsequently served with 27 and 83 Squadrons (both with Vulcans). In 1964 100 and 139 Squadrons equipped with Victors followed. Blue Steel remained in service with No. 617 Squadron (RAF), as Britain’s nuclear deterrent, until 1970. The Royal Navy took over the deterrent QRA on 30 June 1969 when the third Polaris submarine, HMS Renown, went operational.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/hawker-siddeley...
AEC Mandator Flatbed Lorry - 1967
AEC Mandator Flatbed Lorry - 1967
H.C.V.S. Trans Pennine Run - 4th August 2024
I ventured out to photograph the passing vehicles taking part in the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society Trans-Pennine Run on the 4th August 2024. The weather was a bit uninspiring but it was still nice to see the vehicles that were on the run. Sadly, there seemed to be markedly fewer participants this year. In the hour and a half that I was by the roadside, only about 25 commercial vehicles passed me, which is a lot less than previous years when I've gone out to photograph the cavalcade. Unless I missed some of them, but the time I was out is usually the peak time for them coming through the Calder Valley. However, here are some of the photos. This first one is of an "old friend", which I've photographed several times before, but which it is always very nice to see - the 1967 AEC Mandator, 51 DXC, owned by Graham Mellor of Ripponden, here seen climbing out of Luddendenfoot. 4/8/2024.
Picture taken at 2024 Llandudno Transport Festival
Gaydon 2024
Gaydon 2024
Classic & Vintage Commercial Show 2024, Gaydon, 8/6/24.
IMG_3300.
Neil F.
AEC Society Rally 2024
New to Manchester Ship Canal's Bridgewater Transport Services, c/n TG4R109. By the 1970s it had passed to Richard Ransome for moving his steam roller before passing to the present owners John & Neil Boughey in the 1990s. Repainted in original livery in 2021.
Newark Showground, 26/5/24.
IMG_3212 AEC 60.
Neil F.
AEC Society Rally 2024
New to Manchester Ship Canal's Bridgewater Transport Services, c/n TG4R109. By the 1970s it had passed to Richard Ransome for moving his steam roller before passing to the present owners John & Neil Boughey in the 1990s. Repainted in original livery in 2021.
Newark Showground, 26/5/24.
IMG_3221 AEC 60.
Neil F.
AEC Society Rally 2024
New to Manchester Ship Canal's Bridgewater Transport Services, c/n TG4R109. By the 1970s it had passed to Richard Ransome for moving his steam roller before passing to the present owners John & Neil Boughey in the 1990s. Repainted in original livery in 2021.
Newark Showground, 26/5/24.
IMG_3147 AEC 60.
Neil F.
1966 AEC Mandator, ENF 570D, in its original livery of Manchester Ship Canal's Bridgewater Transport Services division.
39th AEC Rally 2024
The driver of this AEC Mandator tipper in a Maltese quarry luckily escaped with his life being saved by the steel body. He needed a new pair of pants though! The AEC, which had not-long been re-cabbed hence the Leyland grille, if I remember rightly, was given another replacement cab and put back to work.