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Vanassche: Belgium fire trucks manufacturer

Added by JACQUES PETER on 11 August 2025.

Still built with the styled crew cab which is mainly aligned with the original tilting factory driver’s cab, rather than the higher and wider crew cabs being adopted by most of the German and Austrian fire truck builders these days. Brussels runs with five person fire crews, rather than the seven or eight or even occasionally nine which are commonly found in some other European countries. This is presumably why the smaller cab is still considered suitable, although London - for example - has in recent years bought new Ategos with larger cabs than their predecessors.

Added by Rob Johnson on 12 August 2025.

The various regions of Belgium, Flemish, French & German tent to incline to their bordering countries fire engines trends, i.e. The Netherlands, France & Germany. I think they finally opted for a standard hose connection type! Which was an issue many years ago!

Added by JACQUES PETER on 14 August 2025.

I noticed that some South American fire services which bought used British fire pumpers with BS instantaneous hose connections solved the problem quite simply. Each unit carried a handful of very short hoses with one BS coupling and one US standard threaded one. A similar approach was used on pumpers bought from Germany and the Netherlands, which had Stortz couplings….Later acquisitions tended to have outlet couplings changed, but this idea of a few short “conversion” hoses seemed to be a very easy work around!

Added by Rob Johnson on 14 August 2025.

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