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This isn't a Magirus ladder, it looks like a french Riffaud ladder.

Added by Jürgen Hass on 25 October 2019.

I seem to think that this ladder is a Carmichael/Riffaud and not Magirus. Only because I’ve read it somewhere !

Added by Rob on 25 October 2019.

you are right my mistake. My source online index to Fire Cover.

Added by Petros on 30 October 2019.

was this the only Riffaud ladder in the UK?

Added by Petros on 31 August 2025.

I have just seen a press report about this that says "That was bought for a bargain price of £89,000 and ended up useless as replacement parts became impossible to obtain in Britain"! Gloucestershire Echo - Friday 18 March 1988

Added by Petros on 31 August 2025.

Found another press report in February of that year. It was an EPA24m ladder, ex demonstrator bought in 1984 after a year touring the UK. By 1988 it had developed faults costing £20k to fix and there was no support service in UK (presumably Carmichael ended their agency - they also had the French company Camiva at one point). It was sold on for £35k in 1988, I guess to Eire. The ladder was put on a new chassis acc to a Fire Cover 2004 supplement on Carmichaels.

Added by Petros on 31 August 2025.

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