Fire Vehicle Services

Fire service historian and author

Roger Mardon

www.romar.org.uk

This 1977 Reynolds Boughton Griffin / Chubb Pathfinder, DJO 130R, was new to John F Kennedy Airport, New York. Chubb purchased the vehicle in 1998 and returned it to the UK for use as a test bed for monitors. It was bought by Fire Vehicle Services of Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, in 2001 since when it has been used at Bruntingthorpe for the restored Avro Vulcan trials, has been at Fairford a few times over the years, Airbus Chester, Airbus Filton when Concorde landed and has covered the Airbus A380 flight test.