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Dennis N type Aberdeen Grampian FB
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No: 2945   Contributor: Hendo   Year: 2006   Manufacturer: Dennis   Country: United Kingdom
Dennis N type Aberdeen Grampian FB

G810 Is a Dennis N type 1915 Appliance. Formerly stationed in Aberdeen City it is now preserved at Brigade HQ In Aberdeen.
Picture added on 09 May 2007
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G810 (car 4033, 16 October 1915, glasgow fb) is in the care of north east Scotland fire heritage trust which is the heritage section of grampian fire and rescue service based in aberdeen. G810 was acquired in March 1995 from the estate of george strathdee. From correspondence "we are very territorial, so we re-decaled it as aberdeen city fire brigade as they had on city n types at the time"

Added by Frank Cerutti (Car 4115) on 27 April 2008.
G 810 I believe was allocated to Springburn in 1915?

Added by Andrew Middleton on 03 May 2010.
Information I have gathered is that this appliance was one of two bought by Glasgow Fire Brigade and stationed at Springburn Road. Delivery date was 16 Oct 1916. G810 was labelled Pump 26. Two units cost 1,930 Pounds (Scottish or English?)

Added by Frank Cerutti on 03 May 2010.
Thank's Frank. Was the other G811 or G809?

Added by Andrew Middleton on 03 May 2010.
Very interesting Andrew.Im was brought up in Springburn, funnily enough our house was demolished to make way for the new station,but i can remember the old station with its magirus pumps and magirus TL during the late 60s,early 70s,but its good to see a Springburn appliance from the early 1900s.

Added by Tommy Swindle on 03 May 2010.
You're a very lucky man Tommy. What a fleet to watch in action. Magirus/SMT WtE's, Leyland Firemasters, AEC's, Dennis F12/25's and the two Leyland Comets.

I can just about remember PDM 501 turning out of Rhyl as a spare during the summer of '76.

Added by Andrew Middleton on 04 May 2010.
RS 5222 I believe was the Aberdeen Halley 500/600 Pump of 1924.

Added by Andrew Middleton on 04 May 2010.
You mention Mr George Strathdee I recently brought a 1927 Singer car and I am trying to research the history of the vehicle. It was sold at auction in 1988 and came from the collection of Mr George Strathdee can you help me to contact anybody who has any knowledge of the collection.

Added by Simon Bishop on 11 April 2011.
You may be interested to know that Glasgow was the first British fire brigade to buy imported chassis fire engines when they acquired the Magirus water tender escape appliances in 1967.

That really started something!

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 June 2018.
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