Fire Engines Photos

This machine new in 1990, was the result of a project by the Brigade and Teesside University, in its original format it was an Emergency Tender with an extendable body, however this wasn't that successfull, and the machine was converted at the Brigade workshops in Thornaby to the format seen here. it comprises the functions of ET and CU on the same vehicle, and is based at Stranton in Hartlepool.The Machine is in a rather unusual light vermillion rather than red, this came about as a result of Cleveland County's directive that all council owned vehicles should be the same colour!The white fronts on Cleveland Machines originated in 1971, when after a visit to New York, the CFO decided to apply white fronts to the appliances in order to make them more visible under orange street lighting. there had been visibility problems nationaly with the introduction of orange street lighting, and several brigades experimented with differnt colour variations, Clevelands appliances were going to be Dayglow Yellow!! however thankfully, this rather tastefull addition to the livery was introduced instead.
The white fronts were first applied to a pair of AEC's (AXG2/29K) which were new in 1971 to the newly built Billingham fire station on Seaton Carew road, the practice continues today.
This machine has recently recieved a refurbishment and it is now a very elegant dark red.

Added by Chris Hall, Teesside. on 10 November 2007.

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