Marcel, Just a trivial point, but there has always been confusion over the meaning of 'Date' when a new picture is uploaded. Many take it to mean the age of the appliance rather than the date of when the photograph was taken. Perhaps we could have two boxes labelled appropriately?

Hi Barry,
I take your point and I agree that it is confusing, it has been confusing for a long time. So, you've convinced me to make a change to the site now (in particular as the real revamp is going to take a few months before it is going to happen).
We've temporarily taken down the 'year' option from the menu. We are still asking for the year at which the photo was taken and will show that information on the actual picture page. But we are also introducing a new field 'year build'. We will ask for this info from now on and we will go through all (yes all) the photos ourselves to try to complete this information. There will be a long list left for which we are going to ask the site visitors help.
Once we've done this big exercise we will make a menu option 'Year build' available.
Stay with us for a few weeks while we go through all of this.
Unfortunately due to restrictions in the design of the site we can not have both dates as a menu option, I hope the 'year build' is the most important one to use while browsing.

Marcel, this would seem to be a very worthwhile and useful enhancement! Thank you.

We are one third down now, and hope to finish it in a week or two. Please note that there will be quite a lot left without known date. So site visitors assistance will be sought by then :-)

Marcel, I think you're making a lot of work for yourselves. You sure you want to go down this road? I thought Barry's suggestion would work fine and save you all the trouble,,,,

Hi Pavel,
My understanding of Barry's suggestion was two boxes for both dates. But if you can't 'filter' on this info then you might be missing the chance of a useful tool to browse through the site. And creating a new field for capturing info (year build) isn't difficult... but leaving 5k photos without any info in it wouldn't look good I think. Not to worry, we'll get through it fine... and hopefully it will help make the information provided by everyone just that bit more useful. Thanks for your feedback!

On 26 June 2008 Brunei FRD will held a public auction to sale their aerial Hydraulic Platform (HP) which was built on Mercedes and Scania chassis. The list are as follows: 1)1985 HP 4 BG5916 Dennis DFD/Simon Snorkel SS220-require repair 2)1985 HP10 BG6699 Scania 112H/Simon Snorkel SS300-require repair 3)1989 HP11 BG6995 Mercedes Benz1922/Bronto Skylift 22-2T HDT-good condition 4)1989 HP12 BG7020 Mercedes Benz4436/Bronto Skylift 66-2T2 (picture#1935)-good condition 5)1991 HP13 BG8002 Scania 93M210/Bronto SKylift 22-2T HDT (picture#1972)-good condition. 6)1991 HP14 BG8003 Scania 93M210/Bronto Skylift 22-2T HDT-good condition Location of sale: Jerudong 1 Fire And Rescue Station. Date: 26 June 2008 Time: N/A *anyone interested to preserve this appliances are welcome

Exactly where is this auction located and is there a more detailed listing of items to be auctioned?

It is located in Jerudong 1 fire rescue station, Brunei.

I can just tell you that BFRD will auction 6 units of Bronto Skylift and 2 units of Simon Snorkel. The chassis are Mercedes Benz, Scania and Dennis DFD.

For more info just email me at cucul_jala@hotmail.com and i will enclose the detail plus its photos. Thanks.

Editor: We appreciate the interest for the chance of acquiring Fire Engines. However, we would to encourage you to 'speak' to each other directly rather than using this site as an advertising opportunity. Enjoy the photos on this site!

To editor: please delete this auction promotion as the sale is over.
Bomba Boy/H Afiq

Hi Bomba Boy,
Posts here are permanent. We'll leave this note so people can see it is over.
However, in general we love to support anyone in their hobby. But please refrain from using this site / this page from use for commercial purposes.
Marcel Gommers, Editor

I have viewed this website (and its branches) for a year. I found out that those website is useful for the vehicles photographers to show-off their talents. I also want to suggest here that if can why don't host an image library of police vehicles or ambulances?

Hello there. I'm hoping that someone can help me out there. I'm after a windscreen for a Mountain Range Foam Tender(Cummins Engine), currently being used at our airport. It is a six-wheel drive and is fairly old but in good running conditions. The windscreen has a crack and there is a high probability that it might require us replacing it. Looking forward to hearing from you. Nigel

hi there have been bored over the weekend so thought i would make a website about sussex fire appliances if any 1 wants to have a look its www.freewebs.com/sussexfireengines. I've only started it but there will be more photos and video coming soon