Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug Fire Engine

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, August 11, 2006
Origin:
United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
In Radar Hill

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Current Goal

Please take me to your local fire station* and ask nicely if you can have a picture taken of me (with you and/or a firefighter if you wish) in front of their fire appliance. Then send a copy of that picture to - allan.bairstow@btinternet.com - so I can update the bug gallery and my travel bug page which can be found at - (visit link)
I would love to travel the world and see lots of different fire engines in different countries.
* Please check the log/website to avoid duplicating fire stations.

About This Item

At home before its travels !

This is a red toy UK fire engine from the early part of the 20th century. It is a 1988 reproduction of an earlier Matchbox model from the early 1960's. It has been very well looked after by me for many years but it is now time for it to travel about and has some fun !

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Tracking History (16444.5mi) View Map

Dropped Off 6/22/2009 ejanesten placed it in Arlanda Traveller Bugs' Hotel Stockholm, Sweden - 835.62 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/22/2009 ejanesten retrieved it from Virgo - the Cache Stockholm, Sweden   Visit Log

Visited the cache but no real drop due to an active geocoin/travelbug thief in the Stockholm area.
Dropped Off 6/22/2009 ejanesten placed it in Virgo - the Cache Stockholm, Sweden - 21.7 miles  Visit Log
Write note 5/18/2009 ejanesten posted a note for it   Visit Log

Sorry for holding on to this little truck for so long! I forgot I had it for a few months and when I finally realised I still had it in my possession I wanted to take a photo of it and a real Swedish firetruck before letting it move on. I thought there were a bit thin on actual firetruck photos here!

Anyway, this morning I found a fire in the forest and called the Swedish fire department. As they were packing up I remembered the bug that I have been keeping in my backpack for months now. I ran to get it and snapped a quick photo before they drove off.

  • Swedish Fire Truck Unit 301 of the Stockholm Fire Department in Sweden. Photographed this morning around 4 am on Lidingö.
  • An distinguished fire A Swedish fireman stopping a fire.
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/1/2009 ejanesten retrieved it from The Satellites Have Landed (ERB offspring #9) Stockholm, Sweden   Visit Log

I'll see if I can capture a photo of our firetrucks before I release it.
Dropped Off 11/13/2008 Kavat placed it in The Satellites Have Landed (ERB offspring #9) Stockholm, Sweden - 118.21 miles  Visit Log

I didn't manage to take any pictures with the TB and the local firestation but I have one of station itself./Jan

[This entry was edited by Kavat on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 5:26:17 AM.]

[This entry was edited by Kavat on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 6:17:42 AM.]

  • Lidingö firestation
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/3/2008 Kavat retrieved it from Galgen Gotland, Sweden   Visit Log

I will see what I can do on the island, maybe he will have to wait until I get to the mainland.
Dropped Off 9/20/2008 Reodor Rider placed it in Galgen Gotland, Sweden - 926.71 miles  Visit Log

As an end to a lovely MC trip, I stopped by and dropped a TB Fire engine that I picked up in UK last week. I showed him the local fire station, but all the doors were closed and no vehicles to spot. I trust the local Geocachers will continue to show him our beautiful Island Gotland!
///Reodor Rider

  • Is there any body home there? Outside the Visby Fire Station we cold not spot any one from the station.
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/13/2008 Reodor Rider retrieved it from Brews and views number three, Godshill United Kingdom   Visit Log

The Travel Bug Fire Engine will be brought forward to a visit his colleagues in Visby Sweden.
///Reodor Rider
Dropped Off 8/24/2008 MiniG placed it in Brews and views number three, Godshill United Kingdom - 366.03 miles  Visit Log
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