Fire Engines Photos

Fine photo Alan, Lovely appliances, just out of interest, what's the appliance furthest away, other side of the TL?

Added by Dave Lewis on 30 August 2008.

Hi Alan is this an Albion or commer? In the late 60's to early 70's Tayside had Albion cheiftan's with carmichael bodywork. These were then replaced with Dodge K850's with HCB-Angus bodies

Added by Grant Melville on 31 August 2008.

Grant,
This is a short wheelbased Carrier/ Carmicheal/ Perkins diesel Wrt, Berkshire had four of these allocated to retained statons.
This one possibly is BJB 30 B allocated to Mortimer on stndby duty. Berkshire never had Albions!

Added by Alan Jones ex Sub O,B R F B Stn,s 1,2 & 10 on 06 September 2008.

Grant / Alan,
I have two photo's on old slide's of said motor (BJB 30B), Taken in the rear yard of Stn 01 Caversham Rd.

Chris

Added by Chris on 06 September 2008.

hi alan jones, its alan stockwell you will remember me you trained a small crew in 1977 at wokingham just before the 1977 strike so we could go on the run because surrey training school were not taking any courses due to the ongoing dispute. Transferred from berks 1985 to kent fire brigade resigned from the service 1988 moved to essex to start a business went retained 1990 at weeley in essex resigned december 2006 27 years in total. If it helps alan i am a bit of a shorty and on the wokingham course was amongst others was george cross graham harman and chris perfect, my subs at that time were john clare, brian treadwell, on the old group system and john ireson when we went onto watches, ken starr was my sub at station 2 who im still in contact with, an also in contact with nigel crompton, hope your keeping well alan by for now

Added by Alan Stockwell on 18 September 2008.

Alan, I well remember you, nice to hear from you after all this time. My e-mail address is [email protected] perhaps you could drop me a line sometime to catch up on the years! cheers for now, Alan J.

Added by Alan Jones ex Sub O,B R F B Stn,s 1,2 & 10 on 19 September 2008.

I have recently acquired said Karrier and am currently restoring it. Any more pictures of it on the run anyone?

Added by Paul Stevens on 24 September 2010.

Carmichael built this cab on a variety of commercial truck chassis, including Albion, Bedford, Commer, Dodge, Ford, Leyland and Karrier.

It was not always easy to identify the chassis builder, and it seems Carmichael sometimes even left off the manufacturer's badge.

Added by Rob Johnson on 13 November 2017.

Added by Petros on 13 March 2026.

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