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Bedford KG/Merryweather WrL BDG 476T
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No: 20816   Contributor: Petros   Year: 1954   Manufacturer: Bedford   Country: United Kingdom
Bedford KG/Merryweather WrL BDG 476T

taken July 1984 Stow on the Wold Gloucestershire. This is right at the end of the era of Merryweather building fire appliances. In fact this may have been the last batch of pumps they ever built, as the company folded in about 1984 after a history going back to the eighteenth century.
Picture added on 26 November 2009 at 13:24
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Petros - I am assuming that by the times these were supplied they would have been diesels?

Added by Rob Johnson on 14 January 2018.
Further to Rob Johnson question, I can confirm that this was indeed diesel powered.

Added by Geoff Wrightson on 29 January 2022.
The cab looks a lot like the HCB Angus CSV safety cab. Was it too designed to improve crew safety, or was it just similarly styled?

Added by Rob Johnson on 01 February 2022.
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