This article is written in
British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other
varieties of English. According to the
relevant style guide, this should not be changed without
broad consensus.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trucks, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
trucks on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TrucksWikipedia:WikiProject TrucksTemplate:WikiProject TrucksTrucks articles
This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a
list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the
full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles
This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Firefighting, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to
firefighting on Wikipedia! If you would like to participate, please visit the
project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the
discussion.FirefightingWikipedia:WikiProject FirefightingTemplate:WikiProject FirefightingFirefighting articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Brands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
brands on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BrandsWikipedia:WikiProject BrandsTemplate:WikiProject BrandsBrands articles
This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the
project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
This page has an
infobox that is missing one or more vital fields and needs to be updated. Please consult the relevant
WikiProject or
this category to find the appropriate usage.
Speed
Don't forget that modern fire appliances have a practical top speed of only a little more than 50mph. Also, despite the heavy (non-assisted) steering in Green Goddesses, their small size makes them a lot more manouverable than larger modern engines.
The BBC report has been added as a reference. However what is needed is citeable information about the vehicles sent to Africa. A simple websearch does not work because the name "Green Goddess" is not a unique term. Anyone have good access to Nigerian and Zambian Newspapers covering the period 2007 - Current Date?
Graham1973 (
talk)
04:58, 11 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Have located a set of photos from the Lusaka times dating from 2011, one of which shows what is captioned as a 'destroyed' Green Goddess
here,
picture here. Damage does not look that bad.
Graham1973 (
talk)
A thanks to all the authors
As someone who quite a bit of spent time in one of these during the '77 Fire Fighters dispute, I happened on this article and read it with some interest and nostaglia. I still have my "Green Goddess Tie". I was going to thank the principle author on his/her talk page but I see that there have been some 30 different authors each contributing in a coordinated way producing an interesting article without any factual errors that I can see. A good example of collective knowledge.
They we bl**dy dangerous at speed, especially with a full water tank. One of the crews in my regiment managed to roll theirs on the way to an incident. All that was left was the RL chassis and matchsticks!
It would have been useful if the anon poster had indicated which important fields are missing. It seems pretty well populated already, and the only significant missing fields are height, width, length, weight and wheelbase.