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Photo of Clwyd Control Unit
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No: 21848   Contributor: Dusty   Year: 1983   Manufacturer: Bedford   Country: United Kingdom
Photo of Clwyd Control Unit

The two Range Rovers were eventually replaced as Towing Vehicles for the Control Unit and Chemical Incident Unit. In their place two redundant Water Tenders were utilised. These had started life with Denbighshire & Montgomeryshire Joint Fire Brigade in 1969 and had passed to Clwyd in 1974. Here OUN 176G has brought the Control Unit from Rhyl and set up as Main Control at a 12 Pump fire at the Deeside Leisure Centre on the 15th. April 1983.
Picture added on 26 January 2010 at 14:45
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hello would you have a photo of the following wagon.. OUN 171G.. As I would love to see what it looked liked while in service as I owned this one for a few years Dave Todd..

Added by Dave Todd on 03 January 2011.
Remember the fire well! Hearing Flint on Blues & Twos waking me up early hours as a 13yr old & listening there on to the make ups/informatives etc on my clock radio that picked up the old WK! Those were the days! I went to the scene with my Dad (an Instructor at Training School, Rhyl) that morning and spent an hour watching the damping down & the Brigade photographer going about his business - Flint's Simonitor booms up at the back with / Colwyn Bays HP @ the front? Wasn't that a White Watch turn out?

Added by Simon Cunningham on 17 March 2011.
Yes it was a White watch job Simon. The HP was KDM 860K from Deeside though.


Added by Dusty on 21 March 2011.
Thanks Dusty. I did think it was Deedside's but I saw a photo that appeared not to have the third boom - must just have been the angle the photo was taken made it look like the HP from Colwyn Bay.

Added by Simon Cunningham on 27 March 2011.
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