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Dennis F28 Pump Escape 22FYD back
This appliance was built in late 1959 and delivered to Somerset Fire Brigade in early 1960 when it was issued to the two pump retained station B7 City of Wells. It was originally a pump escape and finished its service as a Water tender Ladder. It was stationed at Wells all its life and was taken off the run in 1978. It then went to Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station where it served as a water tender in their works fire brigade alongside another ex Somerset F28 index 353MYA. It entered preservation in the early nineties and has been restored by the owner to have it would have looked when it first entered service minus the wheel escape. You can see from the rear shot, the adaptation workshops carried out so it would carry a 13.5m ladder rather than the escape. This machine was one of a batch of five bought by the brigade, three were water tenders and two were pump escapes.
This appliance was built in late 1959 and delivered to Somerset Fire Brigade in early 1960 when it was issued to the two pump retained station B7 City of Wells. It was originally a pump escape and finished its service as a Water tender Ladder. It was stationed at Wells all its life and was taken off the run in 1978. It then went to Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station where it served as a water tender in their works fire brigade alongside another ex Somerset F28 index 353MYA. It entered preservation in the early nineties and has been restored by the owner to have it would have looked when it first entered service minus the wheel escape. You can see from the rear shot, the adaptation workshops carried out so it would carry a 13.5m ladder rather than the escape. This machine was one of a batch of five bought by the brigade, three were water tenders and two were pump escapes.
Great pair of photos, Paul.
Neat to see how the "wagon-wheels" (er, yes, I am from else-where) of the Wheeled Escape would have stowed in around the Pump Panel.
A great rig.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
around the Pump Panel.
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 23 February 2009.
Neat to see how the "wagon-wheels" (er, yes, I am from else-where) of the Wheeled Escape would have stowed in around the Pump Panel.
A great rig.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
around the Pump Panel.
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 23 February 2009.
Was the new ladder gantry at the rear of the appliance some kind of hinged lowering device?
Did it have a 400 gallon tank when it carried the wheeled escape?
Added by Rob Johnson on 25 August 2014.
Did it have a 400 gallon tank when it carried the wheeled escape?
Added by Rob Johnson on 25 August 2014.
Hello Rob the ladder gantry isnt hinged it was a conversion by Brigade workshops when the wheeled escape was withdrawn and replaced by a lacon. The two vertical support bars onto the chassis are in fact scaffold tubes!! The current owner has acquired a wheeled escape and hopefully in the near future it will be restored back to its former glory. I beieve they had a 100 gallon first aid tank to keep the weight down.
Added by PAUL PICKFORD on 12 September 2014.
Added by PAUL PICKFORD on 12 September 2014.
Dennis
Added by John Stott on 22 February 2009.