Green Goddess

The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the Bedford RLHZ Self Propelled Pump, a fire engine used originally by the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), and latterly by the British Armed Forces. These green-painted vehicles were built between 1953 and 1956 for the AFS. The design was based on a Bedford RL series British military truck.

Read more about Green Goddess:  Auxiliary Fire Service, Operational Use, Technical Specifications

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or goddess:

    “They call, even if I’m pinned behind bars.
    They call, they call their green death call.
    They want me. They need me.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “under chenille bed spreads
    The farm girls are feeling the goddess in them struggle and rise
    brooding”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)