Bowser (tanker)

Bowser (tanker)

A bowser is a generic name for a tanker of various kinds.

Water

The term bowser is used by water companies in the United Kingdom to refer to mobile water tanks deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient. The term rose to prominence in general usage in England in July 2007 when severe flooding in the valley of the River Severn caused interruption of the piped-water supply to a large area of Gloucestershire. [cite news|title= [http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2007/07/23/flood_bowser_locations_feature.shtml Flood Bowser Locations] ]

Fuel

Bowser can also be used to describe a fuel tanker used to deliver fuel to aircraft at airports or airfields.cite magazine | journal = Ozwords | url=http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/pubs/ozwords/pdfs/ozwords_oct05.pdf | publisher= Australian National Dictionary Centre | month = October | year = 2005 | author = Mark Gwynn | title = When people become words ] The term is also used to describe refuelling boats used to supply seaplanes.

Other liquids

At the former nuclear research facility at Dounreay in the far north of Scotland, the word bowser is used to describe various moveable (but not wheeled) vessels that contain alkali metals (sodium or NaK), protected from oxidation by an inert gas. The word may also have been in use at the Atomic Energy Authority's (now UKAEA's) southern sites.

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