Fire Engines Photos

A very unusual historic photo, showing a wide variety of appliances from a bygone era. From left to right, a Berliet GAK water tender, conventional cab Berliet-Magirus TTL, two Mercdedes LF 25 2500 LPM German specification pumpers, a Renault Galion with an 18 meter Gugumus wheeled ladder and a Citroen HK ambulance.

Added by Rob Johnson on 06 December 2021.

Citroen HY

Added by Jacques PETER on 07 December 2021.

Sorry, JP - my fat finger hit the K key, instead of the Y. Not sure why! I also missed that this HY is actually the VTU, not the HY ambulance. (The ambulance had a smaller chevron badge and a white roof.) As someone who sold hundreds of Ford Transit vans over many years, I always thought the HY design was a masterpiece, but not exactly a thing of beauty...Should mention I love these photos, which take me back to when I studied at Fontainebleau and then lived in Paris in the early 1970s!

Were there a lot of German fire trucks around in Alsace-Lorraine in this time period?

Added by Rob Johnson on 07 December 2021.

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