Fire Engines Photos

Jose: quite rare in the Americas - apparently a rear-mounted pump.

The big, red, boxey thing, with the handle, would be the Dump Valve; for filling Portable Tanks (Mobile Dams) by gravity.

Seeing as the Dump Valve is mounted at bottom of
Water Tank; and the high Rear Hose-bed on top of the tank; must be quite a water-capacity - maybe 1500 Imperial Gallons of water [1800 US Gals; 6820 litres] on the single rear-axle.

Thanks for showing us an interesting rig.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 09 September 2009.

This locally built Ford Cargo had a GVW of 17 tons, so a 2000 US gallon tank (= 7, 600 liter) could have been possible.

Added by Rob Johnson on 19 November 2019.

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