Brian + H & H
Tenacity
Following the genuine and sincere concern expressed by one of my Flickr friends recently that we have no electricity or running water in Cornwall I felt I should allay his fear. Although we might not have these amenities and niceties, we make up for this with our ingenuity and tenacity. I am now at liberty to share some of this information with you as enough time has passed for it to be lifted from the constraints of the official secrets act.
Many years ago about 9 of us were gathered in The Golden Lion (Code Name “The Office”)
when suddenly Tristram Trevithick burst through the door saying he had just taken a call at the phone box in the village and that it had been Red Adair saying that a Sheikh had an oil well on fire, but Red himself was busy wallpapering the hallway ceiling and wondered if we boys could take the job on for him, and he would pay us a million pounds.
Tristram said we would carry the job out but would need transport from Cardinham Airfield to the location of the fire in the desert.
So I borrowed brother’s long wheel base Land Rover loaded up a few tools and off we all went via Trago Mills to collect some hob nail boots.
The C130 plane collected us and we embarked on our mission into the unknown, several hours later we were over the burning well and ready to go, the Pilot came back and said boys, I am not going to be able to land near the site, so what about if I lower the rear cargo door of the aircraft, fly as low as possible and you chaps roar out.
So this is exactly what we did, we lined the old Land Rover up and straight across the desert right into the middle of the burning oil well.
With no time to waste the boys were out jumping up and down in the fire and after about an hour we had stamped the flames out. Everyone looked a bit dazed and smoke damaged but mission accomplished.
Not long and the Sheikh who owned the well turned up sincerely congratulating us on an amazing job saying he had never seen anything like this before.
Now boys there is your million pounds what are you going to do with the money, Tristram steps forward and said, “get the brakes fixed on the Land Rover”.
Thank you for looking, your faves and comments are always much appreciated.
Tenacity
Following the genuine and sincere concern expressed by one of my Flickr friends recently that we have no electricity or running water in Cornwall I felt I should allay his fear. Although we might not have these amenities and niceties, we make up for this with our ingenuity and tenacity. I am now at liberty to share some of this information with you as enough time has passed for it to be lifted from the constraints of the official secrets act.
Many years ago about 9 of us were gathered in The Golden Lion (Code Name “The Office”)
when suddenly Tristram Trevithick burst through the door saying he had just taken a call at the phone box in the village and that it had been Red Adair saying that a Sheikh had an oil well on fire, but Red himself was busy wallpapering the hallway ceiling and wondered if we boys could take the job on for him, and he would pay us a million pounds.
Tristram said we would carry the job out but would need transport from Cardinham Airfield to the location of the fire in the desert.
So I borrowed brother’s long wheel base Land Rover loaded up a few tools and off we all went via Trago Mills to collect some hob nail boots.
The C130 plane collected us and we embarked on our mission into the unknown, several hours later we were over the burning well and ready to go, the Pilot came back and said boys, I am not going to be able to land near the site, so what about if I lower the rear cargo door of the aircraft, fly as low as possible and you chaps roar out.
So this is exactly what we did, we lined the old Land Rover up and straight across the desert right into the middle of the burning oil well.
With no time to waste the boys were out jumping up and down in the fire and after about an hour we had stamped the flames out. Everyone looked a bit dazed and smoke damaged but mission accomplished.
Not long and the Sheikh who owned the well turned up sincerely congratulating us on an amazing job saying he had never seen anything like this before.
Now boys there is your million pounds what are you going to do with the money, Tristram steps forward and said, “get the brakes fixed on the Land Rover”.
Thank you for looking, your faves and comments are always much appreciated.