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Bedford NOA620 (prob)
The only decent pic of a Birmingham (UK) Bedford as a Pump Escape that i've seen. Fleet No10,taken in 1966 in the engine house at old Albion Street Fire Station (closed March 1968) in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Our usual Dennis PE must've been off the run as this is a Div Spare. Could just about get the rear mounted hose-reel to work but to operate the rear mounted pump, the escape ladder was usually slipped & pitched or propped free-standing. We even carried a Hook Ladder in those days! The brass pole drop glitters on the right hand side. The station opened c1911 and was replaced by Ladywood Fire Station on Icknield Port Road. Great times!
The only decent pic of a Birmingham (UK) Bedford as a Pump Escape that i've seen. Fleet No10,taken in 1966 in the engine house at old Albion Street Fire Station (closed March 1968) in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. Our usual Dennis PE must've been off the run as this is a Div Spare. Could just about get the rear mounted hose-reel to work but to operate the rear mounted pump, the escape ladder was usually slipped & pitched or propped free-standing. We even carried a Hook Ladder in those days! The brass pole drop glitters on the right hand side. The station opened c1911 and was replaced by Ladywood Fire Station on Icknield Port Road. Great times!
Taff - You may be interested to know that the Paris Fire Service (BSPP) - who invented the hook ladder nearly two hundred years ago - still carry at least one on every pump appliance, and do regularly use them.
Three rescues were carried out by hook ladder as recently as last November - in many of the city's ancient courtyard buildings, this is the only alternative....
They are also carried on most French fire appliances in other parts of the country, because they are so useful.
Added by Rob Johnson on 15 January 2018.
Three rescues were carried out by hook ladder as recently as last November - in many of the city's ancient courtyard buildings, this is the only alternative....
They are also carried on most French fire appliances in other parts of the country, because they are so useful.
Added by Rob Johnson on 15 January 2018.
Cambridge had one of these in the early sixties when I was a student there, but it did not normally carry an escape ladder. As this photo clearly shows, access to the main pump and the first aid hose reel was not all that easy when the ladder was in place….
It is here
Added by Rob Johnson on 29 July 2024.
It is here
Added by Rob Johnson on 29 July 2024.
Bedford
Added by John C.Thompson on 13 March 2016.