This vehicle body was stored on Raydon airfield by the Home Office for many years in readiness for a national emergency. Donated in 2003 and now restored, it would have been mounted on a Fordson ET6 lorry chassis.
The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s. It served as the UK’s main air defence weapon into the 1990s and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the forces of four other countries.