Monday, 27 August 2012

I was leaning on a lamp post.....

Well, a good couple of days at the Rauceby War Weekend this weekend. Loosely themed around the 1940s (we won't tell them my goddess was made in the 1950s....!) I missed Saturday owing to delivering some Land Rover tyres but made both Sunday and Monday and joined some of the chaps from the NFS-AFS Vehicles Group who have a number of wartime (grey) Austin and Fordson appliances.

On both days we not only displayed the vehicles to the public but made it into the ring for not only a demo circuit with blue lights and sirens but a full drill demonstration using an Austin K4 turntable ladder. On both days, this was connected to the goddess which had a full tank of water, enabling water to be squirted across the arena. Thankfully, the goddess performed smoothly as ever and having been tested last weekend, the pump is now working faultlessly, although I did have to fill up with fuel on the way back on Sunday - over £100!





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  1. Phill Gregson11 September 2012 at 22:37

    Hi, great to keep up with your blog! I Have recently acquired a green goddess, registration PGW120, unfortunately she's had a hard life and needs most of the cab replacing, the backs been removed and has a hiab fitted, suits me well, still a pleasure to drive too! Do you know where the PGW prefix originates from? Cheers, Phill

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  2. Duncan13 September 2012 at 16:27

    Hi Phill! Many thanks, glad someone reads this! Always good to hear of another survivor! Yes, many that were purchased in the big sale a few years ago are now suffering from long periods of time being kept outdoors. Luckily, mine was kept under cover by the previous owners so the bodywork is solid! Mine's a real pleasure to drive now after the mixture and timing was sorted and after I traced the weak spark. Have you heard of RSOLES? I've just checked the database on there and PGW 120 isn't there. Just an email-based forum for goddess owners (and other ex-AFS vehicles) - useful for advice / support / banter etc. It's the top link on my 'interesting links'. The PGW prefix I believe is a London prefix but nor sure about any more. I think the PGWs were some of the earliest batch, the others being NYV, RGC, RXP and SYH. Cheers, Duncan.

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  3. Duncan16 September 2012 at 23:19

    Phill, just had a look on the web and indeed, PGW seems to come from London. The middle and last letters of the three form the two letter area code. The GW of PGW apparently was 'London SE'. (N)YV was 'Greater London' as was (S)YH. (R)XP was 'London County (Council)'. (R)GC was 'London SW'.

    http://www.londonbusroutes.net/miscellaneous/regs.htm
    http://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf

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