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Nice shot of a bygone era, including one of the eleven very utilitarian D600 HCB Water Tenders I was involved in selling to Gloucestershire that year. As can easily be seen, these had a separate crew cab and retained the standard tilting Ford factory lorry cab.

Communication was effectuated by removing the rear cab window and fitting a monster rubber grommet to keep (most of) the rain out!

Historic, at least for me, for two reasons:

1- These were the first D series fire appliances sold in the UK, leading to sales to eventually around thirty British fire brigades.

2- They were my first fire engine sales, too!

Both Carmichael and HCB quickly figured out how to build a much better looking split tilt cab on the D chassis, and Merryweather had Reliant build a full tilt crew cab, which seems to have been quite well executed.

Numerous builders in other countries sold D series fire appliances, most of which retained a modified crew cab along similar lines, including some in New Zealand with US C series style canopy cabs. Many examples can be seen on this site...

Added by Rob Johnson on 02 November 2018.

HCB bodied the Ford D series water tender sitting next to it. This was one of the first eleven D series sold in the UK for fire appliance use in 1967.

Added by Rob Johnson on 06 November 2018.

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