Fire Engines Photos

Another faithful Water Tanker; and Front-Mount Pump, too!

7, 000 litres water would give us "not-so-good Metrics" 1540 Imperial Gallons.
OK, Okay - 1850 USA Gallons - on the truck. About the maximum, for single-rear-axle loading.

Love the low-mounted tank, for better road-stability; and those black-white painted wheel-rims are great warning devices, for the truck moving.

Looking carefully, under rear body - I think I see the hanging tire-chains of
an "On Spot"-type winter tire-chain system - gotta have that load of water arrive safely on the fire-scene !

Great photo.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 09 January 2009.

Single axle tankers were indeed limited to 7000 liters in Sweden when this was built. Under current European regulations - and with more modern lightweight body construction technology - we are now at 8, 000. In earlier days, this was only possible in a few countries, where 13 ton axles were allowed.

Our Swedish friends were very fond of front mounted pumps for decades, but this feature has gradually died out, just as it has in other places where they were once commonplace...

Added by Rob Johnson on 21 May 2018.

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