Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 RR-engined crash tender prototype

[Wendax]

Well, it being a special engine, Thornycroft been taken over by AEC at the time, AEC belonging to Leyland, and considering the hottest theme in truck engines at that time of plenty of gazoline, I guess it is a Leyland gas turbine engine.

[grobmotorix]

I´ve got to check it when I´ll be back home.

Still locked for you of course.

[grobmotorix]

Well, it being a special engine, Thornycroft been taken over by AEC at the time, AEC belonging to Leyland, and considering the hottest theme in truck engines at that time of plenty of gazoline, I guess it is a Leyland gas turbine engine.

computer says no...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdjCb4LwQY

[Wendax]

Some Thornycroft Nubian featured Rolls-Royce engines. Is it one of those?

[grobmotorix]

Now I´ll give you the point!

This prototype has been on duty at Helsinki airport.

It´s a Ginge/Thornycroft MS 20000 crash tender prototype car, a one-off as far as I know.

It has been featured in an official Rolls-Royce engine magazine advertisement.

[DeAutogids]

It still exists:


Ginge was a Copenhagen based company. It moved in 1972, making this truck from before 1972. I found a source stating 1961.

[Wendax]

Is that a Finnish number plate?

Well, I can answer it myself, just found the pic in the web: it is at the Finnish Aviation Museum in Helsinki.

And as I see now, you already mentioned Helsinki airport 

[Allemano]

More:

[Carnut]

Is that a Finnish number plate?

It is indeed an old-style Finnish number plate issued prior to 1971 by the city of Turku, Finland's 3rd largest city on the south-western tip of the country.

[grobmotorix]

Now you do know all I knew before - very good!