Incident Control Vehicle For Sale.
One Careful Owner
FEBRUARY 10th. – Latest: Offers to purchase the old vehicle MUST be received on headed notepaper by Wednesday 11th March. Email: bennett8888@btinternet.com for full specification and further information on how to make an offer.
Plans for the team’s new Control Vehicle are well advanced and, with a last concentrated push for funding, the vehicle should be commissioned by Spring 2015. To help cover the cost Buxton Mountain Rescue Team is offering for sale its current Mobile Control / Response Vehicle, preferably to a deserving mountain, cave or A.L.S.A.R team or any voluntary organisation with similar aims.
The Ford Transit vehicle was donated to the team in April 2003 and served as a minibus for several years. It was then converted into a mobile operations control room in 2010.
The vehicle is offered for sale with many extras on board including three Icom radios, a Webasto space heater and a Transvend water boiler. Internal and external scene lighting is fitted all round with a twin battery and split charge system to allow for on base stand-by charging. It can carry eight people and has a full blue light package. There is plenty of room for rescue kit secured in a rear cage and a stretcher can be carried internally.
There are currently 27,500 miles on the clock with a full service history maintained by Derbyshire County Council. The engine is a 2,400cc diesel with a registered gross vehicle weight of 3,500 kG and therefore drivable on a standard driving licence.
The vehicle will become available in March / April 2015 when Buxton MRT will replace it with a similar vehicle but with 4 x 4 capability.
The charity trustees are not permitted to give the vehicle away but have agreed to accept a reasonable offer which reflects the extras fitted to the vehicle from any community spirited voluntary organisation. Private offers will not be accepted.
For further information please email; enquiries@buxtonmrt.org.uk
Control room. Equipment cage.
One comment
Its amazing to see how Buxton team has grown over the years and to have been a member of a leading team in the past, its thanks to the forward thinking members that MR teams throught the UK are now regarded so highly by the Police and other Emergency Services, very well done and may you continue to grow and provide such a wonderful rescue service.