My dad drove them before he went has a retained fireman

the green metal handle as you described it form the undersea locker is a battery clamp for the vehicle battery I guess the one fitted is now bigger than the original and hence the bracket is left off. The two holes are for the threaded bar with a wing nut and washer on top and the 90degree angles sit over the battery edge.

How's this going?? I own PGW 41

How did it go? I found one but not sure if i should buy.

Hello PerksAuto

I drove one of these Green Goddesses during the Fireman's Strike of 1977-78. I was based in Dundee (Rodd Road). It was an experience! rushing to fight a fire at speeds of up to 30 mph!

Isit still for sale?

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Where did you go ?

Where did you go ? I was enjoying your restoration ?

Where did you go ?

Haw are you getting on?

INTRESTING VIDEO WELL DONE CAN REMEMBER SEEING THEM DURING THE FIRE FIGHTERS STRIKE

Any updates on her?

Finally a little tale from ancient history. My own brigade, Birkenhead Borough were fighting a huge woodland fire one very hot summer, early 60's ? They had all 5 of their pumps deployed supplemented by their 2 goddesses and the land rover light pump. Mutual aid was provided by Wallasey Borough, Cheshire County, Liverpool City and Bootle Borough. Wallasey and Cheshire supplied another 3 goddesses and everybody provided station cover or were in attendance at the fire. Within days pumps were breaking down one after another. It turned out the Home Office had about 300 goddesses stored in hangars at Blackpool airport and so 8 of them were sent to supplement firefighting operations. It took a week to extinguish and another week of damping down. I believe Liverpool City sent Birkenhead a bill for the repairs to their appliances.

After the Civil Defence and Auxiliary Fire Service were disbanded the Home Office had a stand at an emergency services show at the NEC. They were selling fully equipped goddess's, some with less than a thousand miles on the clock, for the princely sum of £800 each. Hundreds were sold abroad. Some UK brigades bought them as relief appliances but the FBU wouldn't touch them on safety grounds.

They were absolutely horrendous to drive. Turning a corner with a full water tank (no baffles) at anything over 10 mph was asking to be tipped on it's side. 40-45 mph flat out, if you're lucky. Primary purpose was to act as a water relay in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Firefighting was a secondary purpose.

As someone in the industry and teaches blue light response, you can't simply just put them on. You need appropriate training, insurance and purpose. You would need to be attending an emergency as deployed on behalf of a fire and rescue service. That's the simple explanation without going deep into it.

Your videos are educational and entertaining .

Great videos, with it being a older British vehicle I hope you've bought tools in imperial measurements, enjoying so far

It's a Green Goddess! 🤣😂

Very interesting! We are a similar age with the same interest in vehicles, I've been musing buying one of these for a long while. What addition (if any) would I need to my licence to drive it? (Would it be exempt from weight restrictions due to historic status?)

I've just found your channel and am enjoying it, but I thought i'd weigh in here as an ex police officer. With regards to the Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations: Under the definitions of an emergency vehicle as per Section 3 of the RVLR 1989, you correctly identified that an emergency vehicle is 'A motor vehicle of any of the following descriptions- (a)a vehicle used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes'. However, you didn't pay any heed to the word 'purposes'. As you own a vintage fire appliance and do not use it for fire brigade purposes as part of either a local authority brigade or other such authorised fire brigade, your vehicle is no longer recognised in law as an emergency vehicle. This has knock on implications because the RVLR 1989 Section 16, again as you correctly identified, states that: No vehicle, other than an emergency vehicle, shall be fitted with- (a)a blue warning beacon or special warning lamp, or (b)a device which resembles a blue warning beacon or a special warning lamp, whether the same is in working order or not. Because your vehicle is no longer recognised in law as an emergency vehicle it is actually unlawful for the blue lights and sirens to remain fitted, whether working or not. The police however, recognise that they are integral to the vehicle's look/image/history and its preservation so choose not to prosecute it. It is advised for the blue lights to be covered and sirens disconnected whilst driving on the public highway so that they cannot be seen by the public and there is no possibility of using them. The police are generally happy with that. Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing her restoration progress!

hate to be a pedant...but its an SPP (Self Propelled Pump), not a fire engine. :P

I love these RLs, I'm from Malaysia and there are still a few ex army units around as they have found a niche collecting wood from the jungles. Beggars the mind how they keep them running.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYmvfatvbNllhNE

I generally agree with your comments on oil with one caveat. On cars without a proper filter you would want to find a non-detergent oil. Modern oils have a detergent additive which keeps particles suspended in the oil until it gets caught by the filter. On older cars without filters, the non detergent oil will allow the particles to rest at the bottom of the sump out of harms way. Using a detergent oil will mean the particles will just keep going round the engine. The most common non-filter engines you see today are air cooled beetles (there are filter kits sold) and they work fine with modern detergent oils as ling as you don't keep it in the engine too long, as such expensive oil kept for longer periods in these engines is not good. Love the Goddess and the videos!

i see you trying your best....i am an ex-RL in service driver and still own the army recovery version and parts.....tip for the long crow bar mounted on roof....long wooden handle to insulate against electric shock, also used on railways and london underground if you are looking for replacement or pattern....original hold down most likely a leather strap....keep trying, she will be worth it. DON'T crunch 1st, non synchro gear when changing down, double de-clutch..lol

Sorry to say I think your interpretation of the law is wrong because you are not a "Fire Brigade". You are are private individual with an old fire engine. Furthermore, Fire brigades only use Blues and twos when on an emergency ......not for getting home for tea!

The wood & canvas items in the o/s rear are hose ramps for other vehicles to cross over, when the hoses cross a road.

Love the green goddesses didn’t know they got sold off

I’m taking it you can drive that on a normal car licence? Ive been looking at trucks and I was surprised to see these are quite reasonably priced

Just seen this , as started looking for one to spend my Raf pension on ! I drove one of these on Bristol downs, before I'd passed my driving test curtesy of our Mt driver, as was asigned as a Radio operator on one of these at Redlands in Bristol on the 1st fireman's strike. Good work chap , love to see it when your done. All the best.

Love your vids mate, been far too long since the last one. Stay safe and have a great day :)

Hi First time I have seen your video, you have chosen a project and a half,good luck with it. I've had the privilege of driving and operating one of these ladies, some close call when trying to stop and turning corners. I got 36mph out of one on one call, breathtaking. You take of your Green Godess, I look forward to seeing her when she is complete.

There was at least 2 owners after me

Wiring was not me either

I didn’t do the windscreen bottle

She was going to be crushed by a company as they had already sold the number plate and we’re going to get the pump etc out for scrap metal

Everything works on her as I rebuilt her in 2011 .She was taken back to bare metal painted proper green and I used plates on her roof for strength.Used Madeline for charity work and she raised £40,000 for an animal hospital for waggytails in Poole Dorset .Now I’m a truck driver in USA but Madeline who was my Yorkie of 16 years and the inspiration to buy and rebuild the GG and Madelines spirit is still with me

I should have watched to the end before my last post ;-} don't go through the floor take the hinges off of that frozen locker

keep up the good work on the goddes. The green bag witht he water bottel cap and the filter canister looks like an NBC respirator haversack

Enjoying the videos, any chance of a test drive video? Do you have the correct license to drive it on the road?

Now in the United States we have several groups of people who have created a VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, AMBULANCE CORPS, PRIVATE STATE SANCTIONED POLICE DEPARTMENT AND VOLUNTEER RESCUE SERVICES. Each of the above have been outfitted with SIRENS AND EMERGENCY WARNING LIGHTS that are perfectly legal. The vast majority of FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND AMBULANCES ARE VOLUNTEER SERVICES that are TAX EXEMPT AS A NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION. So my friend, my suggestion is that YOU start your own VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE WITH A RESCUE TEAM AND VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE. Get your EMT Training and or ADVANCED FIRST AID WITH CPR AND DEFIBRILLATOR TRAINING and then SWITCH ON YOUR BLUE LIGHTS AND BLAST YOUR SIRENS. Oh please don't forget about the STUTTER TONE AIR HORNS, BULL HORN and get rolling down the road. DING A DING DING! When I was an Auxiliary fire Captain in New York City our apparatus had BIG SILVER BELLS. Our sirens were a FEDERAL 28 grinder. My POV was an old New York State Police Car that had a FEDERAL PULSATOR SIREN and later on a SIGNAL-STAT ELECTRONIC SIREN. It was a police package unmarked police car. But I belonged to a VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS back then. Now in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 I am a member of the VETERANS AFFAIRS VOLUNTEER SUICIDE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION SERVICE. During CURFEW we are exempt from the CURFEW, LOCKDOWNS and on the streets and roads constantly. The national statistics show that every single day we have twenty three Veterans who have been very successful in taking their own lives in the United States. But since the Coronavirus Outbreak here in Puerto Rico we have had Fourteen Veterans who have committed suicide since February 2020. We get a staggering amount of SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AND CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE TO PREVENT SUICIDES FROM FAMILIES OF VETERANS AND OR FROM THE VETERANS THEMSELVES. My vehicle is a FORD EXPEDITION with RED AND BLUE WARNING LIGHTS AND A WHELEN ELECTRONIC SIREN with the MARTIN HORN SIREN. And yes I am a retired Navy Veteran and an EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. But here in Puerto Rico people don't respect the EMERGENCY VEHICLES, they won't pull over for Fire Apparatuses and Ambulances. We have to BOGART our way through traffic. But as for your video I give you A GAZILLION THUMBS UP ALL AROUND!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇵🇷

I love the truck but I don't think that I would like driving on the wrong side of the road. I am in the United States and we drive on the Right side of the road. But all in all it's a very lovely truck.

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Im thinking about getting one, what a great looking beast, any information would helpful. Ie thngs to look for when buying one, also are the roof wood.so on

Be careful using plumbers tape on anything that's not water. bit of it can brake up when you screw the fittings in and the the bits can go round systems and cause blockages and damage. Cooling systems aren't to bad but people love to use it on fuel, oil and vehicle airlines which can cause all sorts of problems. There are some really good liquid/paste sealants out there designed for automotive use.

hi perks autos i have just found your channel sir well done keep up the good work with the old goddess watch you all the time from now on

Very interesting restoration. Not seen many GGs. Sat in the rear with some friends who own its quite roomy. Built a model for a friend, really nice kit. Keep going.. 😊

Another great video. Well done PerksAuto :).