{"id":79195,"date":"2021-02-15T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=262989"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:19:00","slug":"police-water-cannon-used-to-control-riots-in-northern-ireland-sold-on-ebay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/02\/15\/police-water-cannon-used-to-control-riots-in-northern-ireland-sold-on-ebay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Police water cannon used to control riots in Northern Ireland sold on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>An historic 26-tonne truck with a water cannon has been sold online for \u00a33,100. The fortified police vehicle was used to control riots in Northern Ireland in 1970 but, after 20 years outside a museum in Humberside, it is in need of restoration.<br \/>\nThe winning bid was one of 12 placed for the Royal Ulster Constabulary truck, which is the only known example of its kind in existence.<br \/>\nMilitary equipment specialists Allsops of Bolton said they had initially bought the 1970 Foden Pyrene on impulse at an auction.<br \/>\nJonathan Allsop said: \"We have had a lot of enquiries, a lot of people have come forward and told us about the engine.<br \/>\n\"It has restoration potential and to be quite honest it should be restored.\"<br \/>\nMr Allsop's Lancashire-based company restores old military vehicles, many of them from the Second World War.<br \/>\n\"It was an impulse purchase,\" he said. \"I had never seen one before.\"<br \/>\n\u00a9 Sky News 2021<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An historic 26-tonne truck with a water cannon has been sold online for \u00a33,100. The fortified police vehicle was used to control riots in Northern Ireland in 1970 but, after 20 years outside a museum in Humberside, it is in need of restoration.<br \/>\nThe wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1108],"tags":[2240,10490,10351,10439],"class_list":["post-79195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","category-police","tag-military","tag-singapore-technology","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79196,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79195\/revisions\/79196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}