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This design resembled the American fifty foot (15 meter) “quint”, meaning a multiple combination unit with pump, water tank, hoses, ground ladders and a turntable elevating ladder too. These were not very successful, as in the US they were usually deemed to be too small to be really useful. The design was rarely adopted in the UK and was also none too successful. Ironically, a main reason given for their short and unhappy lifespan was that they were often thought to be too big…

Ed: an idea before its time given the arrival of Stinger and Scorpion here recently?

Added by Rob Johnson on 25 August 2022.

Perhaps, but it remains to be seen whether these newer innovations prove to be really effective, as it may still be the case that they too are not very useful very often, except perhaps with aircraft and some industrial fire incidents.

Cost pressures on UK fire brigades will always encourage the adoption of new multi purpose units, like the infamous carps and Multistars, but often these turn out to be what we in Yorkshire used to describe as “neither nowt nor summat”,

Added by Rob Johnson on 26 August 2022.

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