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I do hope that roof monitor was remote controlled.

No-one I know would want to be perched on that narrow strip of roof, even if they could figure out how to get up there!

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 June 2018.

The monitor was entirely hand controlled, from the roof.

Added by Ronald Henderson on 27 June 2018.

Although they are very rare in the UK, some other countries frequently place roof monitors (or "deck guns") on pump appliances. Of course these days they are most often very sensibly remote controlled, but the manually controlled ones were almost always installed centrally, which is much safer for the operator.

Hong Kong was a notable exception, with dual side mounted monitors, also on Dennis pumps.

Added by Rob Johnson on 28 June 2018.

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