Fire Engines Photos

Great shot, Petros, of the Wheeled Escape being operated.

All those photos that you took back then, are now a real treasure-trove.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 23 November 2009.

These were the first one of the first to be fitted with the (Alison MT Automatic gearboxes). They were quite nice to drive 'But the Automatic transmission took a lot of power from the engine. 'Hence they were much slower from ' 0 - 50 MPH and were slower climbing hills etc. 'But the benefit was "That the driver could keep 'Both hands on the wheel". This power problem ' was later over come by more powerful diesel engines.

Added by Paul Crudge on 14 April 2014.

The LFB 109s allegedly had the same engine and transmission as the ERFs but the auto box on the 109 was much better behaved than in the ERFs. You could never get the ERF to change up when you wanted it to, but it always seemed to just as you entered a bend, when you least wanted it to. Why was that?

Added by Bruce Hoad on 15 November 2017.

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