Fire Engines Photos

You made my day Pete, thanks for sending the picture in (I always used to look out for the Training Centre pair when visiting their Headquarters).
Whilst I know they were criticised, I always felt at the time that these Shelvokes looked really modern, and due to their "boxey" appearance reminded me of the RS. In fact, I have often wondered which came first and whether Shelvoke & Drewery SPV were perhaps trying to cash in, by making an appliance reminiscent of Dennis's Ogle design or was it just what emerged?
If it is the latter then (the benefits of safety aside) it's almost amusing to think that they came up with an equivalent look to what I imagine a highly expense crack design team did after much pencil chewing and pondering.
Shame there are not more preserved ones still around.

Added by John D on 12 January 2009.

John:Both cabs were actually designed simultaneously by Ogle, which makes it not so surprising that they looked so similar.

Shelvoke was a late entry into the fire appliance business, and were trying to take sales away from Dennis, because Dennis were being increasingly successful in the garbage truck sector, which was Shelvoke's main business.

They sold a lot of units to London, largely because of price cutting, and had a 17 ton chassis which was often used to re-mount turntable ladders, but were never profitable, and the company was eventually bought by Dennis...

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 July 2020.

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