Fire Engines Photos

Wonderful photo John. Pre Dennis era for Humberside prior to the Dennis R133/Dennis' arriving.

Added by Andrew Middleton on 19 September 2010.

Hi Dusty. Great photo thanks for sharing it. Have you any idea how many Dodge's Humberside ran ?

Added by Paul Warnock on 19 September 2010.

To my recolection, Humberside ran 3 Dodge appliances. UWU 323L was inherited, I think, from Yorkshire. RAT 322/323R were purchased for evaluation. These served virtually all their careers at either Immingham/Grimsby/Cleethorpes before being used as divisional spares.

Added by Mike Burnett on 20 September 2010.

Hi Mike. Thanks for that information, it sounds like UWU 323L is an ex West riding appliance. Paul.

Added by Paul Warnock on 20 September 2010.

I have recieved info that Humberside ran four Dodge appliances, one at Goole, one at Snaith and the two R registered appliances mentioned earlier. Will post registration numbers when I get them.

Added by Mike Burnett on 01 December 2010.

Thank you very much for the info Mike, much appreciated.

Added by Paul Warnock on 01 December 2010.

The fourth Dodge was probably RWY 369L another ex West Yorkshire appliance.

Added by Dusty on 02 December 2010.

The fourth Dodge for Humberside ran out of Goole. Registration number RWY 369L. Hope this is of use.

Added by Mike Burnett on 02 December 2010.

I seem to think the two Dodges at Goole and Snaith were consecutive registrations UWU 322/3 L they were of course ex West Riding Fire Brigade stations absorbed into Humberside in 1974 - I rode the Goole appliance when detatched from Scunthorpe - out of interest Snaith was a 'nucleus manned 'retained station generally having one or two guys from Goole (the parent station) on duty to assist the crewing levels - they also had a retained Station Officer - his name was Dyer - it used to cause great hilarity when he answered the phone with 'Stn Officer Dyer 'ere' - we used to ring him up on purpose just to hear him say that - he never cottoned on !!!!

Added by Rick Loudon on 02 December 2010.

Sorry to disagree but RWY did not run out of Goole it was definatly a UWU reg I may be wrong on my previous post about consecutive registrations - possibly it was RWY from Snaith ?

Added by Rick Loudon on 02 December 2010.

I could be wrong on which station was allocated which machine. I have a photo of UWU 323L at Peakes Lane. I'm not sure if this was in for servicing or running as a spare

Added by Mike Burnett on 03 December 2010.

RAT 322R was on the run as the third pump (C15) at Peakes Lane, Grimsby for quite a while. Both 322R and 323R were known as 'The Rat' at Peakes Lane and Immingham. 323R was Immingham's third pump C45).

Added by Alan Smith on 18 May 2012.

what a flash back, we had owt 699 at haworth station, retained, west yorks, i joined on the change over from west riding [i wonder if shes still running].the cabs had different colours for which area they came fro, bradford was post office red, halifax had a white band, ther was also bright pink, orange cabs, not sure where they where based, leeds weset, leeds east, wakefield or huddersfied.

Added by John Gibson on 02 March 2017.

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