Reference
FSD/PC13
Title
Album No. 12
Date free text
6 September 1971 to 9 May 1972
Production date
From: 1971 To: 1972
Scope and Content
Includes material as follows:
- demonstration of Simon Snorkel at Luton Fire Station by West Sussex Fire Brigade*;
- delivery of Beds FS first white painted fire engine to FSHQ*;
- uncertainty as to whether Potton Fire Station would be closed and not replaced by new premises;
- union recommendation that union members stop driving fire appliances due to inadequate insurance cover;
- gas explosion at 2 High Street, Westoning*;
- multiple pile-up, in which 8 died, in freezing fog on M1 at Leagrave Road bridge [see also FSD/PH 5/31]*;
- train collision at Sharnbrook*;
- fire at Luton Electrical Supplies Centre, 39 Collingdon Street, Luton [see FSD/RR 1/216]*;
- mini-whirlwind in Henlow*;
- fire at Cople House Hotel [see FSD/RR 1/57]*;
- photograph of named personnel of Dunstable Fire Brigade with their engine, c.1910 (Fred Dyer, Ernie White, Ernest Eustace, H Turner, Albert Owen, George Baldock and E Mooring) and one of the 1971 Dunstable White Watch crew with their engine, also named, photographed by Terry Richards (Jeff Standforth, Brian Mann, don Smith, Dick Janes, John Hider, Tom Lynn, Jock Whyte, George Nelson, Dave Smith and Richard Wilkinson)*;
- fire at the thatched Crown Inn, Little Staughton*;
- multiple pile up, in which 9 died, in fog on M1 at Junction 13*;
- fatal fire at 33 Rutland Road [see FSD/RR 1/175]*;
- crash of Goodyear airship “Europa” into a tree in the garden of Manor Farm, Cotton End [see also FSD/PH 5/32]*.
Level of description
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