FIRETRUCK GRAVEYARD
IN FRANCE
G'day folks,
What little boy didn’t
dream of driving a big red firetruck? Today’s find from the world of urban
abandonment feels particularly tragic– and a little bit like
uncovering the tomb of childhood dreams. Not to be a downer or anything.
This Aladdin’s cave of rare automobiles is likely one of
several. In the 1990s, the French fire departments raised funds in an
effort to restore and preserve their retired old trucks to be sent off to
museums but in the early 2000s, that initiative ran out of money and went bust.
The trucks that weren’t in good enough condition were sentences to the
scrapyard rather than being sold to the public, and the rest were sent to
storage sites like this in the event that maybe, on the off chance, one day a museum
might come along and save them.
The good news is, exactly a year after Vincent took these
photos, a firefighter museum opened up in Lyon, near the Swiss border in the
East of France. The bad news is, fire departments across the whole of France
were hoping to unload the burden of their old trucks and there’s only so many
firetrucks that one museum can display. This particular warehouse is
located somewhere near Le Havre, all the way across the country in the
North of France.
Now, have a look at these treasures covered in dust.
Clancy's comment: Wow, what a waste. The quality of these would have to be far better than what is produced today.
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