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Thankyou Alf, this is a very useful looking TL is it for use in Amsterdam?

Added by John Stott on 31 July 2009.

John, The ladder is stationed at the Fire station Dirk in Amsterdam. It's a 24 metre ladder.

Added by Marcel on 31 July 2009.

Thanks Marcel, its a similar size to a DAF I saw when last there, they told me it was for getting around the old city.

Added by John Stott on 31 July 2009.

Hi John, are you sure it was a DAF ? The Amsterdam Fire brigade had recently only Iveco 24 metres in their fleet.

Added by Marcel on 31 July 2009.

I was last there over fifteen years ago Marcel, sure it was a DAF, or is my age starting to show?

Added by John Stott on 01 August 2009.

Hi John, and did you saw this ladder in downtown Amsterdam or in one of the suburbs ? I'm searching the database from which town this DAF could be....

Added by Marcel on 01 August 2009.

Marcel, it was in the centre of Amsterdam, I would be interested to find out as well, ta!

Added by John Stott on 02 August 2009.

According to the Amsterdam FD website, the previous-generation 25 meter TLs were indeed IVECO-MAGIRUS. Some became reserves and others were sold to smaller Dutch and Belgian departments. These all had the same "club of four" cab as Renault, Volvo and DAF in those days. Very easy to confuse the different brands. (Mulheim in Germany actually ran an IVECO-MAGIRUS with a Renault grille, because they could not get a replacement for the IVECO-MAGIRUS badged one after a traffic accident.)
Most of Amsterdam's TLs are 24M rather than 30/32M, because of the many narrow streets and the predominance of older buildings, which do not merit having the longer ladders.

Added by Rob Johnson on 10 August 2012.

Hi Marcel & John! It's a Mercedes-Benz Atego cab!

Added by Anders Fallström on 22 October 2016.

Anders:

I think we were all talking about the previous generation of Amsterdam IVECO TLs. After switching to Atego pumpers in the early 2000s, the city started the changeover to Atego ladders a few years later. Like many European fire services, they run ladders on a longer replacement cycle than their pumpers.

Added by Rob Johnson on 25 October 2016.

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