E887 YLG: a 1987 Land Rover 110 V8 built by Carmichael as a hydrant vehicle for the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, then rebuilt in 1989 by Storm Fire Protection as a CAA-approved Category 2 airfield fire engine that supported military parachuting, and from 1998 the front-line appliance at Turweston Aerodrome until it retired in 2018.
A hydrant vehicle is the first-response half of a works fire service: a light four-wheel-drive carrying hose, branches and the fittings to get water out of the site's hydrant main onto a fire before the pumps arrive. Sellafield, with its own fire brigade and a great deal to protect, commissioned one from Carmichael of Worcester on a Land Rover 110 V8 chassis in 1987 — the 3.5-litre Rover V8 giving the pace a light appliance needs.
Its second life is the interesting one. In 1989 Storm Fire Protection converted it into a Category 2 fire engine to the Civil Aviation Authority's standard — the crash-and-rescue cover a small airfield must provide — in its later red configuration, and used it to support military parachuting at various UK sites. In 1998 Turweston Aerodrome in Buckinghamshire bought it for front-line operations, and it served there for twenty years before retirement in 2018.
Offered by Bonhams with an estimate of £10,000–15,000, running and driving well, with all the fire equipment, lights and hoses working. Chassis SALLDHAV7BA297904.
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
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