Fire Engine Photos

No: 16848 Contributor: Paul Pickford Year: 1990 Manufacturers: CFE, Dodge Country: United Kingdom

Dodge K1113 leaving Wells Fire Station

Dodge K1113 leaving Wells Fire Station 10.10.90

This picture shows the Dodge K1113/CFE Water Tender CYB14S leaving the Old Wells Fire Station in Princes Road for the last time enroute to the new Fire Station on 10/10/1990. A few days later the old station was reduced to a pile of rubble to make way for a new Tesco's store.

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Picture added on 10 May 2009 at 05:33

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Another of my favorites, the Dodge I only drove one when our Bedford TK was off the run. Happy days !!

Added by Paul Warnock on 10 May 2009.

Has anyone got any pictures of the Hertfordshire Dodge appliances of the seventies?

Added by Simon Woods on 10 May 2009.

So that what the Tesco was built on top of! I had always assumed that the new fire station had been built on the site of the old one as had happend at Glastonbury so now I know otherwise.

Added by George A'court on 12 May 2009.

George, Tesco paid for the new station to be built they also did this in Chard. If you stand facing Tescos with the bus station toilets behind you that is where the old Station stood. A shout was always great fun because the firemans cars were just left on the road at either side of the station depending on what direction they came from. The Wells swimming pool was directly behind the station and if you were quick when the siren went off there was a window you could look through at the back of the station and see the firemen running in and the machines turning out. It was a bit tight in the station and you couldn't get the second pump out without the first away having gone first.

Added by PAUL PICKFORD on 12 May 2009.

Hey Paul, is that the siren on the tower? Double-header three-mile or what,thanks..

Added by Pavel Zaremba on 23 May 2009.

Pavel no it is not the siren its a floodlight in the drill yard. By this time retained crews in Somerset were on the Multitone alerters however there was a siren on the drill tower at Wells and this was still in use to call out the retained firemen during the daytime until the early eighties. It sounded the same as an air raid siren. At night the firemen had bells fitted in their houses.

Added by Paul Pickford on 23 May 2009.

My brother in law was driving this vehicle in Romania many many years ago

Added by Teo Enw on 10 January 2021.

Hi Teo, Any chance you can find out who the body builder was for CYB14S? My email address is [email protected]

Ed: for answer see

Added by Adrian Carmichael on 04 May 2022.

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