Fire Engines Photos

This is 152 DUP, which was originally the ET at the old (Belasis Lane) station at Billingham, when it was a Durham County Station. When Teesside came into being, the County kept this ET, and it went to what was then C21 Peterlee. When converted into a BAT (originally termed a DCU)it served at both Framwellgate Moor and Darlington.

Added by Ian Moore on 04 January 2012.

This is the first and only rear view I've ever seen of this machine. I wonder what happened to it? I only saw it once, back in 1985, and I understand it was disposed of shortly after.

Added by Chris Hall on 05 January 2012.

Sunderland had a virtually identical Bedford Miles ET. But they specified a pair of front doors, which seemed eminently sensible to me.

I still do not understand why almost all Alfred Miles appliances (as well as some others) had no front doors - not even the Commers which were designed as full forward control trucks from the start.

The logic seems to be as follows: - this is an emergency vehicle, so let's slow down the driver's and officer's ability to get into it, so it does not turn out too quickly. Then let's make it harder for them to get out, so the siae-up and pump (or other) operations can be delayed a bit longer, too.

Added by Rob Johnson on 19 August 2014.

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