NEW AIRPORT VEHICLE
£20,000 Crash
Tender A new crash-fire vehicle was delivered yesterday to the fire-fighting section at Christchurch Airport. The £20,000 machine is the second built by a Wellington firm. The Civil Aviation Department’s fire officer at the airport (Mr D. J. Sbuker) said that the vehicle was patterned on the design of similar machines used at Australian airports. One advantage it has over earlier machines is that it carries a device which can be operated by the driver to produce 4500 gallons of foam a minute. Normally such vehicles require a crew of up to five.
The first of the machines built for the department went to Mangdre.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 16
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