Fire Engines Photos

This appliance is a 1971(reg-MPX 589J)Dennis F44/Dennis that was originally when first delivered based at Chichester,Headquarters of the West Sussex Fire Brigade.It was one of 4 delivered in the striking Coventry Yellow livery.It was the 1st pump on station origanally,then went as 2nd pump at Chichester and then for the last couple of years was at Worthing as a training appliance.It went out of service in 1985 and was broken up.
Jacques,do you have a picture please of just the appliance?.Thanks Pete.

Added by Pete Matten on 31 January 2010.

Thanks Jacques, another lovely nostalgic view. 2 of the bays in the background were later turned into accommodation / lecture rooms for the Brigade training center but i can just remember when they were full of appliances for training. The driver training appliances now have to live outside, only the appliance allocated to the training center gets a bay inside. Jon.

Added by Jon Godden on 31 January 2010.

Hi Pete,
Thank you for the details, as always!. My slides delivery has just arrived from France. I shall start to sort them out and scan, I don't remember if i have a picture of the engine alone...to be continued
Cheers
JP


Added by Jacques Peter on 31 January 2010.

Thanks, Brings back memories as i used to watch drills like this as a young lad. No doubt a lot of the white Fords are brigade vehicles as plain white Fords were the choice for officers cars for many years - now still Ford but very visible red and battenburg - how times change!. Jon.

Added by Jon Godden on 09 February 2010.

Please add your comments about this picture using the form below.

Comments

Your Name

Your email address - this will be shown on the page and will allow the system to notify you of further comments added to this picture.