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1942 Leyland / Merryweather 100'Turntable Ladder
1942 Leyland TD7 / Merryweather 100'Turntable Ladder.
This 1942 Leyland TD7/half-cab Merryweather 100'Turntable Ladder was one of 30 built for the Home Office and issued to the National Fire Service for the war effort.
A total of 63 Merryweather 100' mechanical TL's were constructed for the National Fire
Service and of these,30 were built on the Leyland TD7 bus chassis,25 were constructed
on Leyland Beaver chassis,and the last eight were built on Dennis chassis.
This picture shows clearly the driver position,as well as the crew position behind driver.
Although I've sent in a picture of this TL before,having found now a lot of my very old negatives,I thought I might send these more detailed photographs into the site.
I'm glade I found them,and hope you enjoy viewing them.
1942 Leyland TD7 / Merryweather 100'Turntable Ladder.
This 1942 Leyland TD7/half-cab Merryweather 100'Turntable Ladder was one of 30 built for the Home Office and issued to the National Fire Service for the war effort.
A total of 63 Merryweather 100' mechanical TL's were constructed for the National Fire
Service and of these,30 were built on the Leyland TD7 bus chassis,25 were constructed
on Leyland Beaver chassis,and the last eight were built on Dennis chassis.
This picture shows clearly the driver position,as well as the crew position behind driver.
Although I've sent in a picture of this TL before,having found now a lot of my very old negatives,I thought I might send these more detailed photographs into the site.
I'm glade I found them,and hope you enjoy viewing them.
Owned by John Broom at the time. From memory it appeared in the Royal Tournament.
Added by Neal Glover on 20 December 2017.
Added by Neal Glover on 20 December 2017.
In 1960 Haydon built two Magirus ladders on Leyland Firemaster chassis, which was a thinly disguised bus chassis too, keeping this tradition alive for a little while longer...
Added by Rob Johnson on 21 December 2017.
Added by Rob Johnson on 21 December 2017.
One of these Leyland Magirus ladders went to Wolverhampton, where it replaced a wartime TD7 half cab Merryweather like the one in this photo, keeping the ladder on a bus chassis tradition going....
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 December 2018.
Added by Rob Johnson on 14 December 2018.
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Added by Simon on 16 December 2017.