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2006 Events

20th May Scottish Pipe Band Championships Dumbarton (F8, F108, Fire Warrior to attend)

20th May Johnstone Fair Shanks Mem.Park (Fire Witch, Land Rover and Scania to attend)

21st May Stirling Car Club Rally Bridge of Allan (F108, Warrior, Witch, Scania and Landrover to attend)

27th May Mauchline Holy Fair Mauchline Fire Station (F108 to attend)

1st – 8th June Schonstadt 100th Anniversary Schonstadt (F8 and F26 to attend)

10th June Dragon Boat Race Balloch Country Park (Fire Warrior and Landrover to attend)

24th – 25th June Preston Hall Rally Scockton-on-Tees (F108, Fire Warrior, Scania?? and Fire Witch to attend)

8th – 9th July Glasgow Show Glasgow Green (All appliances to attend)

15th July Loch Lomond Games Balloch

22nd July Leven Grove Park Event Dumbarton

5th – 6th August Emergency Truckfest RHS Ingliston. (All appliances to attend)

Greenock old and new	Greenock at the sea	back home to Greenock	Day out	Greenock
Greenock at the sea	Glasgow S.E.C.C.	Glasgow S.E.C.C. with Jimmy	Old and new	will it fit in Greenock
Day out Glasgow S.E.C.C.	Glasgow S.E.C.C.	Glasgow S.E.C.C.

Days Out and the S.E.C.C.

On Friday 13th. October 2000, Bill Gordon and myself decided to take NHS 196 back to its home station of Greenock. The appliance performed perfectly as we made our way along the M8 Motorway, Bill remarked that it seemed to perform even better the closer we got to its old station.

At Greenock Fire Station,the duty watch were agog as the appliance swung into the yard. ADO Dave Adams had seen our arrival and was on hand to welcome us, he arranged photographs of the vehicle to be taken both in Greenock Fire Station and at Custom House Quay. Dave Adams is very keen on local history and showed us photographs and documents relating to the history of firefighting in Greenock. Later he arranged for the old station within the Town Hall to be opened in order that some photographs could be taken with NHS 196 outside the station it first served at in 1958.

The appliance had to be reversed in and memories of my time at the North Fire Station in Glasgow flooded back as both stations were similar in that they offered only inches to spare ! Once this manoeuvre had been completed, we were joined by Councillor Robert Jackson, Convenor of the Police and Fire Committee of Inverclyde District Council, who was delighted to see the return of Greenock's old appliance.

The Scot Model exhibition took place at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow on Sunday 26th. November. We were invited to take part by the organisers and throughout the day NHS 196 proved to be quite an attraction with children of all ages.

Both the same Age

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