Fire Engines Photos

its a shame that no firefighters wished to drive it due to it being manual and not automatic most firies were taught on auto internationals and did not wish to change

Added by Neilbaldwin on 22 June 2011.

In Brunei our driver are trained with manual trucks only when they complete their training they adapt their driving skills at the auto fire engines they drive on.

Added by Bomba Boy on 22 June 2011.

Traders were quite popular in their day with fire services in both Australia and New Zealand.

But only a couple saw service with fire brigades in the UK - both as ETs. Ford Motor Co had one Trader pump for themselves and the London Salvage Corps had two Trader tenders.

So, when we started selling D series to fire brigades in England in 1967, the market was dominated by Bedford and Commer, and selling Fords was initially a bit of an uphill battle.

But eventually around thirty brigades emulated Gloucestershire, who bought the first batch of eleven, and - although some purchases were only "one off" - Lancashire bought more than forty.

When the D series was replaced by the Cargo, Ford management decided to discontinue the effort to build custom fire appliance chassis, as the extra engineering cost was not justified by the sales volumes.

Cargo fire apparatus were however quite common in Brazil, Venezuela and Turkey, where they were locally built.


Added by Rob Johnson on 24 November 2019.

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