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No: 29360 Contributor: Mark Whiteley Year: 2011 Manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz, Ziegler Country: Germany
Previously operated by the Celle fire service.
This town of 70, 000 citizens has an entirely unpaid volunteer brigade. It operates close to fifty units out of eleven stations, including a wide variety of regular fire trucks, aerials, rescues, tankers, specials, support and staff vehicles.
These two are difficult to date exactly, but are in a series which lasted from the mid seventies to the mid nineties. Bodywork by Ziegler and Schlingmann.
Added by Rob Johnson on 01 March 2018.
This town of 70, 000 citizens has an entirely unpaid volunteer brigade. It operates close to fifty units out of eleven stations, including a wide variety of regular fire trucks, aerials, rescues, tankers, specials, support and staff vehicles.
These two are difficult to date exactly, but are in a series which lasted from the mid seventies to the mid nineties. Bodywork by Ziegler and Schlingmann.
Added by Rob Johnson on 01 March 2018.
Anders' comment is true. I have spent my life living in Lancashire, UK, which used fluorescent red until about 2013. They started off as a bright red wiith a hint of orage and went more orange as time went on. THey are now all older and people now describe them as orange. Lancashire switched to the typical low visibilty red. I think it would have made more sense to paint them non-flourescent orange, that would have matched a lot of the fleet at that point and also be more visible.
Unfortunately, in the UK since the mid 90s, and now in a lot of Europe and beyond, they have the square markings, which were never proven in any way to be more visible than solid colours (despite what a lot of people think) and can give a camouflage effect, and often they don't even have reflective material which outlines the vehicle. There is, in the UK, also no requirements on the standard of blue lights (many brigades still do not fit lights on the side of their vehicles) or on the standard of sirens/speakers (most police cars, paramedic cars, some ambulances and even some fire vehicles use the very ineffective "pipe speaker" - look at Redtronic's website, they list the db output of their speakers, you can see how awful the pipe speaker really is).
Added by Kryzon Daan on 25 October 2024.
Unfortunately, in the UK since the mid 90s, and now in a lot of Europe and beyond, they have the square markings, which were never proven in any way to be more visible than solid colours (despite what a lot of people think) and can give a camouflage effect, and often they don't even have reflective material which outlines the vehicle. There is, in the UK, also no requirements on the standard of blue lights (many brigades still do not fit lights on the side of their vehicles) or on the standard of sirens/speakers (most police cars, paramedic cars, some ambulances and even some fire vehicles use the very ineffective "pipe speaker" - look at Redtronic's website, they list the db output of their speakers, you can see how awful the pipe speaker really is).
Added by Kryzon Daan on 25 October 2024.
Mercedes-Benz
Anders F. Sweden.
Added by Anders Fallström on 15 August 2014.