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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 1832.PDF
25 JUNE 1954 FLIGHT 17 The MINISTRY OF SUPPLY (On behalf of the Air Ministry) has placed with THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD a Contract for PYRENE FOAM CRASH TENDERS These new Tenders, the latest form of mobile fire protection de signed especially for airfields used by the Royal Air Force, will be capable of producing, at an expansion ratio of approximately 14 to 1, a total foam output of 6,000 gallons within \\ minutes, at the maximum rate of discharge. The provision of a Foam Monitor enables a powerful, far reaching jet of foam to be concentrated upon a blazing aircraft immediately the Tender reaches the scene of the fire. Two hose lines may then be brought into action enabling the crew of the Tender to approach the fire at close quarters and at different angles. THE PYRENE COMPANY LIMITED 9 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON, S.W.I B
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