Fire Engines Photos

This appliance has been purchased by Dartford borough council from Kent fire and rescue service for 1p. I think can now be hired out for functions.

Added by Mark Barham on 10 March 2013.

Awesome looking machine great to see these are being cared for the future generations to see.

Added by Dennis Alexander on 30 March 2013.

I wonder if firemen in those days were trained to speed-change spare wheels and tires en route to a call?

If not, carrying a spare wheel (which incidentally obstructs driver access/egress) does not seems to be a very brilliant idea.

Added by Rob Johnson on 26 January 2017.

In most places you either changed it or there was no attendance!

Added by Neal Glover on 27 January 2017.

Possibly explains why many UK fire brigades stayed with solid rather than pneumatic tyres for so long - most well into the 1920s and many even into the 1930s.

The earlier pneumatics were prone to getting punctured by horseshoe nails, which were often scattered on roadways after coming loose, and it obviously took a while to change a tyre!

It seems spare tyres were not always carried - perhaps it was something that CFOs specified if they had already had bad experiences with punctures?

Added by Rob Johnson on 01 February 2017.

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