Tamworth retired firefighters restore 1920s' blaze blaster
Retired firefighters restore 1920s' blaze blaster, set to return home to Nyngan in glory. The restoration will take up to 12 months, but the club members say they are up for the challenge.
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00:00 I'm Barry Owen, I'm the president of the Tamworth Classic Fire Engine Club.
00:06 Brian Hoy, I'm the vice president.
00:08 And can you tell me about what fire truck we have here today?
00:11 We have, it's a 1924/25 Garford.
00:16 It would be very, very rare to get one in the condition this is in.
00:20 1933, Dennis.
00:23 Does this open?
00:24 Yeah, you can open.
00:25 Up?
00:28 Turn it up.
00:29 Turn it up?
00:30 Yeah, there you go.
00:31 There you go.
00:32 Oh, cool.
00:33 When we restore this, this is going to go into it, into the old fire station at Ningen,
00:40 as a relic of the yesteryear.
00:44 Now she's beating it.
00:46 We're looking at 12 months to restore it.
00:52 And we're going to restore it to its former glory.
00:56 Okay, so the guys in there just stepped out of it, and the other people kept going.
01:00 They left their coffee cups, their two-way radios, their esters.
01:04 Everything?
01:05 Everything.
01:06 Everything in it.
01:07 And because they were going out in the bush and having barbecues,
01:11 they filled it out with a four-burner barbecue.
01:15 That's got to come off.
01:18 Oh, there you go.
01:19 And then you just flatten there.
01:21 And how rare is it to find one of these?
01:24 Oh, very, very rare.
01:26 We are looking for one for our collection, and we have searched far and wide.
01:32 There are a lot around, but they won't let them go.
01:37 They won't let them go because they're so valuable.
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