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Thanks for this Chris, they were a grand machine. somewhat spoiled by the application of summat on the front!

Added by John Stott on 24 June 2009.

Yes you are right, they were five, but one was written off in it's early life in an rta.

Fleet of these are as follows :-

E788LAJ, Spare/training appliance, written off in rta whilst attending a rta
E789LAJ
G713DAJ
H551MAJ
K263YPY

These machines were based at full time stations, York, Harrogate & Scarborough, Northallerton a day manned station got one because it's close to the A1.

In a change of brigade policy, York's went to Tadcaster, Harrogate's to Ripon, Scarborough's to Malton and Northallerton's to Richmond .

Now all out of the fleet, if you look on my page you will see E788LAJ now serving in it's new life.




Added by John Johnstone on 24 June 2009.

Does anybody know if any of these nice little ET's have survived, if yes where?.

Added by Gordon Smith on 18 July 2016.

E788LAJ was based at a heavy goods recovery company in Tadcaster, if I recall rightly it's called Commercial services. E789LAJ was on Ebay for sale not so long back.

Added by John Johnstone on 20 July 2016.

E789 LAJ was owned by the Merseyside Fire Service Museum for a while. I have seen a photo of it somewhere down on the South of England parked up with flat tyres. I cant remember where exactly, and seem to remember it up for sale. I don't know of it's whereabouts now. DVLA site shows it untaxed since June 2014. Hope this helps.

Added by Paul Warnock on 23 July 2016.

John:

Do you know why the brigade moved all four of these from large towns with full or day crews and comparatively more calls to smaller ones with fewer calls and slower response times, because they were not all full-time?

On the face of it, this looks like backward-thinking...

Added by Rob Johnson on 05 January 2018.

I can only think of cutbacks as these were crewed with 2 all the time whilst on full time stations. York was the first station to have a rescue pump that was on a K plate and this was the deathbed for these in a way.

Added by John Johnstone on 24 April 2018.

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