I've just moved to North Yorkshire and have been travelling up and down the A1 around Leeming Bar a fair bit recently. I have become intrigued by an odd loooking vehicle that I have seen fairly regularly sitting by the side of the A1 and also on the surrounding side roads. It is a Transit type vehicle but with a high roof (maybe a Convoy) and has lots of orange and yellow harlequin patterns all over it. I don't think it is marked as a police vehicle, more likely to be North Yorks County Council. The really odd thing is the array on the top. It looks like a frame with about 25 large yellow inverted teacups arranged 5x5. Whenever I see it this vehicle has its doors shut so does not look like a camera van. I did wonder if it was connected to RAF Leeming since whenever I see it it is close-ish to the airfield but it is not in military colours. Last night I saw it at about 7.30pm but have also seen it at 7am.
Does anyone have any idea what it might be.
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ooo - sounds like the Black Helicopter bregade !
:-)
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Might be an Incident Support Unit.
New fangled thing designed to clean up accidents and take the pressure off the police etc
Seen a few of these, have the orange chevrons on the back doors but have INCIDENT SUPPORT (or similar)writen all over them and orange flashing lights on the top.
Cant explain the tea cups though.
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Could be a roadworks/lane closeure warning vehicle with the warning lights folded into the travelling position.
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MIB
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I'd go with the road maintenance vehicle theory.
The 'teacups' are probably the housing of the orange lamps which make the directional arrow when the frame is in position at the back of the vehicle.
PP
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Saw it parked this morning so had a good look. it belongs to the Highways Agency and the tesacups do indeed look like lamp holders so I guess it is a raod maintenance vehicle.
How dull.
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