Fire Engines Photos

Royce, thanks for sharing with us this classic picture of a brilliant line-up of classics from the past.Great photograph mate and very much appreciated.Pete.

Added by Pete Matten on 24 September 2010.

Great photo, any idea if any of the other machines are still with us? especially the lovely F8 with its unusual colour scheme.

Added by Matt Ireland on 24 September 2010.

Royce, as the others have said, a super evocative photograph from times gone by. Do you know where GXA 92 is at this moment? GXA 95 which stood in for EJV955 in later years is with me. See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E60ItcZr9lE

Added by Dr. B.A. Hutchinson on 24 September 2010.

Dr Hutchinson - my apologies for stating that GXA 92 was in preservation. It was of course GXA 95, its successor at Grimsby that is preserved - and in your own good care, I believe! In reply to Matt as far as I am aware DEE109 DEE 496 and MEE 247 are no more - although I would be over the moon to hear to the contrary!

Added by Royce Treacher on 27 September 2010.

DEE 496 survived into the early Humberside Fire Brigade - I remember attending a Ben Fund event at Bridlington Fire Station in late 1976 or 1977 (when Humberside was split by the River Humber with no bridge) and seeing it there on the run as a brigade spare !

Added by Rick Loudon on 17 March 2012.

I own GXA 92 which is now on its way to being restored.

Added by Mick Armer on 12 November 2012.

GXA 92 was I believe for some years near Lincoln on the Skegness Road ?

Added by Rick Loudon on 13 November 2012.

Mick I am pleased to hear that another Dennis has survived......I wonder if I could trouble you for the chassis number please. Feel free to email me directly if you wish....I would be interested to learn more about this machine which according to records I have was new to the NFS Coventry in 1944

Added by Barrie Green on 13 November 2012.

I am sorry that I am just getting in touched the chassis number is 3/58a engine number is 75231

Added by Mick Armer on 02 September 2013.

What was there in Grimsby in 1964 which led to the Brigade operating two TLPs? Almost every British town of this size seems to have had only one aerial truck. At least until the snorkel craze of the late 1960s, when many county boroughs added a snorkel as well as a ladder - although most did not add any extra personnel!

The only exception I know about was York, which added a second TL in the aftermath of the Minster fire, in an abundance of caution. This was said to be because any reinforcement TL was deemed to be too far away, if it caught on fire again.

Fortunatey it is still standing, as good or perhaps even better than new!

Added by Rob Johnson on 20 August 2014.

Was this not when The F17 Metz ladder was to return to Germany for work and the Merryweather was bought as its temporaryreplacement...in which case this picture is either dated before the F17 went to Germany or, on its return ?...as an aside Grimsby also had a php ( elsewhere on this site) and in 1976 a new Dennis Simon SS220 HP which ran alongside the F17 TL

Added by Rick Loudon on 23 August 2014.

Rob- The second TL was a reserve machine. Like York, in the event of failure of the F17 a back-up appliance was a fair distance away. In this case 25 mls or more from Scunthorpe or Hull.

Added by Royce Treacher on 23 August 2014.

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