Fire Engines Photos

The Bedford Crash Tender and the famed USSR Antonov AN-2 passenger biplane [still in service today] make a great pair. Presuming the Bedford has a rear pump - any idea of what it carried for fire gear - protein foam, maybe?

Added by Pat_R-B on 29 March 2008.

and this is why I love Bedfords so much. I would also like to know what is carried.

Added by Monkey Boy The 3rd on 02 June 2011.

Around this same era I heard they mixed chicken feathers with the foam at times. It made for a very sticky mixture that clung onto various airplane parts like engine cowlings etc. Not sure why it eventually became obsolete. Maybe it clogged up the pump vanes. (Just guessing)

Added by Mike Gough - Aurora ON Canada on 16 June 2018.

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