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Dennis D 1971 East Sussex FB
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No: 561   Contributor: Archie McKinnon   Year: 2005   Manufacturer: Dennis   Country: United Kingdom
Dennis D 1971 East Sussex FB

36 BNJ 872 K 1971 DENNIS D Series water tender
Jaguar 6 cyl. 4.2 litre petrol engine.
Supplied new to East Sussex Fire Brigade and stationed at Uckfield, before moving to Hove, where it attended the Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton in 1984. It was sold off in 1984, and purchased by the present owners in 2000, who are gradually restoring it.
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Picture added on 03 February 2006
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This was one of the first batch of 3 appliances supplied by Dennis to East Sussex in 1971. All three were WrL, and besides this one at Uckfield, the others were based at Seaford and Bexhill, where the replaced Commer PEs

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