Report - Airport crash tender graveyard - Chester, Cheshire - January 2023

[Explorer0262]

If the elderly owners have gone into a home, I just hope this doesn't turn into the next 'Hoarder's House - Droitwich' which was raped and pillaged of all its cars.

I fear this will happen for sure. Someone has been inside the hall and splashed it all over facebook. Start the countdown.

 

[whysports]

Unfortunately it has since the YouTubers made it public!
The locals have tried to secure the site the best they can.

 

[Old Git]

These have been posted around quite a bit but they are cool so worth a report.

There are 5 old Blackpool airport crash tenders here in total along with various other cool cars. I don't know an awful lot about airport crash tenders but from what i can find online i believe these are Dennis-Thonycroft Nubian Major mk-9's. They are essentially fire engines designed for use on airports, the chassis for these trucks is a Thorneycroft Nubian Major; a 3 ton truck produced in the early 1970s in Basingstoke, England. The Nubian Major was a 6×6 vehicle. On top of this the bodywork and fire fighting customisations were built by Dennis during the later 1970s and into the 1980s. The Mark 9 had a large tank capacity (1250 gallons water, 130 gallons foam liquid). Additionally these trucks also had an impressive jet throw, from the roof mounted hose system. The cone-shaped deflector spread the spray from the self-aspirating monitor, producing an impressively big foam carpet. This spray could reach 12m wide, and extend for 15m in front of the truck.
As well as the engines there are a few other cool cars here including an XR4 and a Reliant Scimitar. Not much else to say about this place really so here's the photos;

Thanks for looking.

Now my screensaver Mooks