A P5000 6x4 fitted out as an airfield crash tender by Carmichael of Worcester for the Highlands and Islands, registered CYT 673V and stationed at Barra, where aircraft land on the Traigh Mhor beach. It is preserved at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune.
The tender carried a V8 and Stonefield's permanent all-wheel drive for work on the sand strip at Barra; a photographer's description also names Tiree and Islay among the island airfields such Stonefields served. The operator is given as Highlands and Islands Airports by one source and the Highlands and Islands Fire Authority by another. The registration's V suffix dates it to between August 1979 and July 1980; IMCDb gives 1979. The tender appears in the 1987 short film Night Mail II.
Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.
ENGINE5.2 L Chrysler 318 V8 petrol (5,217 cc, 110 kW) with Chrysler TorqueFlite three-speed automaticChrysler LA V8
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSpreserved
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEThree-axle
FAMILYThree-axle
WHEELS6
NOMINAL WHEELBASE139″
BODY STYLEfull-cab
CATEGORYSpecial · Fire
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
