Fire Engines Photos

They also bought a 4X4 Bedford ET in 1962, which was based in Cambridge, and was perhaps the only 4X4 ET in the country at the time.

Another 4X4 at Cambridge in 1964 when I lived there was a tanker on a standard truck chassis very much like the contemporary army lorry. This had a 1, 000 gallon tank and a transverse-mounted AFS-style portable pump at the rear, with its own engine, plumbed into the tank and a hosereel, with 2.5 inch deliveries as well.

Note the extra step and grab handle so a normal height fireman could reach the hosereel. But, rewinding it must have been a hassle!

The four slots above the pump were presumably for lengths of attack hose, so these could be deployed rapidly?

Added by Rob Johnson on 02 August 2013.

for the emergency tender see picture 36723.

Added by Peter Williams on 08 December 2013.

The hosereels were wound from just inside the cab via normal handle.

Added by Alan on 13 December 2013.

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