Fire Engines Photos

Did many of the Essex pumps have monitors on their roofs? Or was there a reason for this particular appliance having the monitor?

Added by Andy on 27 March 2008.

The monitor on the roof is to do with stansted airport incidents- harlow had a fire engine like this

Added by John Brian Dawson on 27 March 2008.

During the 1980/90s period a vast majority of appliances in use with the
Essex County Fire Brigade(Essex F&R)had a roof monitor mainly as a fixture
on the roof of the cab, but even on the roof of the main back section.The
County has large dock areas, major industrial complexes throughout, and of
course airports, as well as in the summer months a county that is a big tourist haven, holiday camps, hotels etc, but very seldom was the monitor used on a major aircraft incident but would be very helpful at large fire incidents.


Added by Pete Matten on 27 March 2008.

Cheers for that!

Added by Andy on 28 March 2008.

Hi. You mention that Harlow had a fire appliance with a roof monitor. Yes they did, it was F926 NHK which was also their rescue pump. I now own that vehicle and have it in preservation.
Ed: see it here:




Added by Tony on 22 September 2021.

Roof monitors on standard pump appliances were relatively rare in the UK, with one other brigade in the North fitting them too. Hong Kong fitted dual monitors to their Scania and earlier Dennis pumps, and there are photos of them on this site. By contrast, all fire pumpers in the US are required to have a so called “deck gun”, which may be fixed or demountable - so that it can be used as a ground monitor.

In Europe, they are quite common in Germany and Austria, but pretty rare everywhere else. German water tenders almost always have a roof monitor. They are of course pretty much standard on brush pumpers in every country, along with a system to enable the driver to operate the monitor on the move.

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 September 2021.

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