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1959 AEC Mammoth Major G6 Gloster SARO Aircraft Refueller MkV Class: Trucks, Trailer truck (tractor) — Model origin: 
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◊ 2012-07-04 23:06 |
Looks very British. |
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◊ 2012-07-04 23:28 |
http://www.vectis.co.uk/AuctionImages/357/3509_l.jpg For future: ![[Image: 3509_l.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/5605/3509_l.jpg) |
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◊ 2012-07-05 00:00 |
This is an AEC Mammoth Major-based 'Super Refueller' by Thompson Brothers Ltd. -- Last edit: 2012-07-26 19:38:41 |
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◊ 2012-07-05 00:08 |
Has it escaped from an airport? |
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◊ 2012-07-13 15:54 |
Looks like it is an airport . I have a vague feeling we've seen a glimpse of this before in another film and tried to identify it . |
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◊ 2013-08-09 23:37 |
Filmed at old Fornebu Airport. Officially closed down in 1998. The tanker is a 1959 Gloster Saro- built AEC Mammoth Major 6 MK V. Here it is today: http://ccmv.aecsouthall.co.uk/p389672231/h6D95672#h6d95672 . An unworthy fate, indeed... -- Last edit: 2013-08-09 23:47:11 |
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◊ 2014-11-23 12:50 |
A friend of me have this truck today and are restoring it this winter |
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◊ 2021-08-23 12:26 |
![[Image: vehicles-saro-1959-60836.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/vehicles-saro-1959-60836.jpg) The refueller was initially built from about 1959 by Saunders-Roe ( Anglesey) Ltd. as the Saunders-Roe "Yorkshire" Super-Fueller. Renamed as Gloster SARO Ltd. part of the Hawker-Sidderley group https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Gloster_Saro |
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◊ 2021-08-23 13:43 |
A light suddenly switches on in Glasgow - SARO stands for Saunders-Roe. My late aunt lived in a cottage behind the Saunders-Roe factory, a couple of fields away, so when I was a kid I could see the massive factory sheds through the trees from the bottom of her garden. If memory serves, it started as a flying boat factory in WW2 and the B-road north out of Beaumaris through Llanfaes along the shore passes over what used to be the launch slipway. Haven't been back for 20+ years, but google aerials suggest most of the derelict factory is still standing. |
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◊ 2021-08-23 19:07 |
Apparently Saunders-Roe built comparatlively few flying boats mainly in the 1930s (they also manufactured some Supermarine Walrus and Supermarine Sea Otters). The Anglesey factory looks to have been built to support the wartime atlantic patrols,,, "During World War II, Saunders-Roe opened a factory at Fryars in Llanfaes, Anglesey, converting and maintaining Catalina flying boats." However I never connected Saunders-Roe with the AEC RT buses with 'Saunders' Bodies! /vehicle_1127490-AEC-Regent-III-1949.html "In the late 1940s and 1950s the Beaumaris factory began making bus bodies under the names Saunders, SEAS (Saunders Engineering & Shipbuilding) and SARO. SARO bodied 250 RTs for London Transport between 1948 and 1950 (RT 1152–1401),... |
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