Fire Engines Photos

Dear Des, love this truck, never seen one of these before, great series of pics mate! Thanks.

Added by Pav on 17 June 2013.

Oh how I hated this thing! Slow, cumbersome and unreliable. The fact was the pump engine was the best thing about it, a lovely Jaguar lump that purred. You could hear it because the lockers had to be open for it to cool.
This was one of the MoDs worst.

Added by John Stott on 17 June 2013.

Oh Gaud, just like when I go to the gallops once in a blue moon, never on a b' winner!!

Added by Pav on 20 June 2013.

Made me smile Pav! I love Bedfords. This was the last RAF appliance to use an air blown foam production. They were wedded to it until the Dennis Mk9. It was a committee built machine, the rumour was it was made up of spares and bits left over from other MoD "projects".
Still it fitted a niche on smaller airfields and I daresay some aircrew somewhere owe their lives to it!

Added by John Stott on 20 June 2013.

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