FSD/PC2

Album No. 1

28 September 1956 to 9 May 1958

From: 1956 To: 1958

Includes material as follows: - resume of career of CFO Goodman on his joining the Brigade; - private light aircraft crash at Firs Farm, Stagsden, killing R I Wade-Gery and P A Hellyer; - debate as to the colour of the Brigade's new fire engine (green rather than red); - demolition of Manor House, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard to make way for a new fire station; - fire at Cosmic Crayon, Ampthill Road, Bedford; - RAF excavator lorry hitting the railway bridge at Marsh Road, Leagrave; - weight-lifting by Luton firemen, photograph showing Fm L Warr; - introduction of a mobile radio-control system to Beds FS; - photograph of Guard of Honour at wedding of Fm A Rann and LFwm M Major; - new fire engine (reg. no. TBM 88) at Potton; - Rank Organisation filming for Duke of Edinburgh Award filming Dunstable Grammar School fire cadets training at Dunstable Fire Station; - re-opening of Potton Fire Station, also includes programme; - article on Fire Service in Beds Times, concentrating on FSHQ and Bedford; - automatic fire fighting system at Vauxhall Motors; - Luton firemen training with a "Bikini" water jet-propelled raft on Wardown Park lake; - photograph of 15 named Sandy firemen in 1923; - adoption of "Bikini" raft by Beds Brigade, based at FSHQ; - article on return of the Pym family to Sandy in 1892, photograph showing, inter alia, Lot Hendry, Captain of Sandy Fire Brigade and James H Mead, Second Foreman, Sandy Fire Brigade.

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Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service,
Goodman, Thomas Bertram,
Wade-Gery, Roderick Ian,
Hellyer, Peter Anthony,
Brett, George,
Cosmic Crayon Co.Ltd.,
Cosmic Crayon Company Limited,
Warr, L,
Rann, A,
Major, M,
Vauxhall Motors,
Vauxhall Motors Limited,
Hendry, Lot,
Mead, James H,
Pym,
Whitaker, Dorothy,
Gill, Edward,
Messenger, Charles S,
Green, Robert,
Elliott, Ronald,
Daniels, Thomas,
Meeks, A E,
Fensome, Vic,
Odell, Billy,
Tingey, Harry,
Sutton, Ted,
Jarvis, Harry,
Norman, William,
Odell, Charles,
Western, George,
Leonard, Harold,
Piant, George,
Bartram, Arthur,
Culvers, Albert,
Usher, Albert,
Odell, Frank

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