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Buckinghamshire Volvo water tender/tanker
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No: 19216   Contributor: Adam Floyd   Year: 2009   Manufacturer: Volvo   Country: United Kingdom
Buckinghamshire Volvo water tender/tanker

Unusual multi-purpose appliances on the run in Buckinghamshire are two of these tri-axle Volvo FL6s with TVAC bodywork. In addition to being fully equipped as water tenders they also have 2000 gallon tanks to fulfil the role of a water carrier, giving a laden weight of 26 tonnes. Y83 MWL is manned by the retained crew at Bletchley, where it is seen during the open day on 5th September 2009, and its sister Y76 MWL is at Waddesdon.
Picture added on 08 September 2009 at 09:20
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Adam, for one moment there I thought I was looking at a New Zealand machine until I read the preamble. Thanks for one very interesting photo, well done. I have to say I really like colours and especially the way they have matched the white with the fluro yellow.

Added by Pav in Perth, Australia on 10 September 2009.
Adam:

This looks like it does not have the locker space to accommodate everything normally carried on a British Water Tender.

Interesting that it is a Swede, but does not seem to have a rear steering axle. These are a well-proven way of improving maneuverability on tandem axle trucks, and can handle the weight nowadays. It must be a handful in some of the narrow country lanes in rural Buckinghamshire...

Are these a couple of outliers, or is the brigade buying more of them?

Added by Rob Johnson on 15 September 2017.
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