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No: 2658 Contributor: Dr. B.A. Hutchinson Year: 2000 Manufacturers: Dennis, Iveco, Merryweather Country: United Kingdom
The Tl Bottoms!
So here we can see the answer to the TL ladder quiz, which only John Walker from New Zealand made a serious attempt to answer. The Loudon 'Rougues' have been suitably exposed.
So from the left we have,
Dennis Metz F17 - This ladder is distinctive due to verticle and angular bracing forming squares.
TL's 2 and 4 are Merryweather Tl's, number 4 being on the later 'Ergo' cabbed chassis. Merryweather ladders are easy to spot as the support for the ladder (the red arms in the photograph) extend almost half the length of the ladder.
TL number 3 with the cage is a Dennis F123 Magirus. Looking at the picture with the ladders extended you can see the characteristic external pulley blocks for the Magirus ladder.
TL number 5 is where everyone failed. It is a Magirus, pre-cage, mounted on an IVECO chassis, so in a way it was from all from one manufacturer.
So here we can see the answer to the TL ladder quiz, which only John Walker from New Zealand made a serious attempt to answer. The Loudon 'Rougues' have been suitably exposed.
So from the left we have,
Dennis Metz F17 - This ladder is distinctive due to verticle and angular bracing forming squares.
TL's 2 and 4 are Merryweather Tl's, number 4 being on the later 'Ergo' cabbed chassis. Merryweather ladders are easy to spot as the support for the ladder (the red arms in the photograph) extend almost half the length of the ladder.
TL number 3 with the cage is a Dennis F123 Magirus. Looking at the picture with the ladders extended you can see the characteristic external pulley blocks for the Magirus ladder.
TL number 5 is where everyone failed. It is a Magirus, pre-cage, mounted on an IVECO chassis, so in a way it was from all from one manufacturer.
Strathclyde had three :
NYS26F Deutz 150D/Bennett/Magirus
PUS920F Deutz 150D/Fulton & Wylie/Magirus
VGG291H Deutz 150D/Fulton & Wylie/Magirus 100’
Added by LFC Andy McVean on 10 April 2007.
NYS26F Deutz 150D/Bennett/Magirus
PUS920F Deutz 150D/Fulton & Wylie/Magirus
VGG291H Deutz 150D/Fulton & Wylie/Magirus 100’
Added by LFC Andy McVean on 10 April 2007.
Turntable no 5 is a Magirus Deutz and nothing to do with Iveco they were formed as a company in 1975
Added by Colin on 09 October 2020.
Added by Colin on 09 October 2020.
Magirus were a unique manufacturer of fire appliances of many kinds. Until the Iveco merger, they were the only firm in Europe - and one of very few Worldwide - to build complete appliances with their own make engines, cabs, pumps, bodywork and ladders.
It was possible to buy individual components, but a lot of brigades - including a vast majority of German ones - bought complete vehicles. They were also the overseas first firm to export their chassis to the UK, in 1967, when four pump escapes were supplied to Glasgow.
Their earlier innovations included the first turntable ladder, the first all steel ladder and the first hydraulic ladder, as well as their famous air cooled diesel engines
Added by Rob Johnson on 09 October 2020.
It was possible to buy individual components, but a lot of brigades - including a vast majority of German ones - bought complete vehicles. They were also the overseas first firm to export their chassis to the UK, in 1967, when four pump escapes were supplied to Glasgow.
Their earlier innovations included the first turntable ladder, the first all steel ladder and the first hydraulic ladder, as well as their famous air cooled diesel engines
Added by Rob Johnson on 09 October 2020.
Dennis
Added by Rick and Mark Loudon on 10 April 2007.