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Welcome to our family Tiny!

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Well, we bought a Green Goddess.... Why? I hear you ask? Well, I was looking for a rolling project and my previous project ( lashmidget.blogspot.com ) only had two seats, no good for taking the family out - so any addition needed 6 seats.  After several car shows, steam rallies and a good chunk of Googling (and some very helpful conversations with friends - you know who you are) a fire engine became the natural choice.  Significantly more consultation of online resources followed (Googling!) and i was surprised just how much choice there was!  I had always wanted a 4x4 and a 'military' vehicle add to that the fire engine dynamic and the Bedford RHLZ Self Propelled Pump was the perfect choice.  Curiously the Goddess is neither a fire engine or a military vehicle rather its a Home Office Auxiliary Fire Service pump designed for relay pumping water over many miles from lakes and rivers into Nuclear Bomb stricken cities during the cold war. Nonetheless it was perfect for