Tag: Fire Engine

  • Fire Engines (pre-1900-1959)

    Fire Engines (pre-1900-1959)

    Manual Fire Engine

    From Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

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    Waterwitch Horse-Drawn Fire Engine

    Built for Henry Mitchell & Co for the Cape Hill Brewery.

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    1879

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    Merryweather horse-drawn fire engine

    Ex-LNER, Gateshead

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    1880

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    Merryweather Motorised Fire Engine

    Britain’s first motorised fire engine

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    1904

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    Gobron-Brillie Fire Engine

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    1907

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    Merryweather Fire Engine

    Brazil

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    1912

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    Photo: Wikipedia

    Dennis Fire Engine

    Swindon railway works

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    1912

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    Leyland Merryweather Fire Engine

    Holkham Hall

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    1915

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    Gwynnes Fire Engine

    Holkham Hall

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    c. 1922

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    Ford Model T Fire Engine

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    1923

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    Guy-Morris Fire Engine

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    Years

    1924

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    Morris Fire Engine

    Years

    1929

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    Morris C-Type Fire Engine

    Years

    1934

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    Leyland Fire Engine

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    Years

    1937

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    Merryweather Fire Engine

    Britain’s earliest surviving airfield crash tender

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    1937

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    Photo: Flickr

    Dennis Ace Fire Engine

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    Years

    1937

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    Leyland-Metz Fire Engine

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    c. 1938

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    Austin K2 Fire Engine

    Served with Coventry Fire Service during the blitz, then Jaguar works.

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    1939

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    Leyland Fire Engine

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    1940

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    Karrier Fire Engine

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    Years

    1952

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    Dennis F8 Fire Engine

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    Years

    1953

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    Land Rover Fire Engine and Coventry Climax FW Godiva Fire Pump

    The famous Coventry Climax engine adapted for racing car use by Lotus, Cooper and others.

    Years

    1953

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    Bedford Green Goddess Fire Engine

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    Years

    1956

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    Alvis Salamander Pyrene Fire Crash Tender

    Shares the six-wheel-drive chassis with the FV 601 Saladin armoured car. Firefighting equipment by The Pyrene Company Limited could produce 7,500 gallons of foam per minute and carried a crew of 6.

    Years

    1958

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    6515cc S8 Rolls-Royce B81

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