Fire Engines Photos

A minor note. The "Trader" was the forward control Thames chassis introduced in 1957. These older conventional cab Thames trucks were not Traders, although the name was recreated for German K series conventional cab trucks sold in Britain in the 1960s along side the British D series.

Some of this generation of Thames were exported as fire pumps as well as being used by Government agencies, but they did not find their way into British municipal or county fire brigades.

In those days, Thames trucks were sold by Ford car dealers, and firms like Bedford and Commer were a lot better organized to sell to fire brigades.

Added by Rob Johnson on 06 February 2019.

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One of the thirteen 1956 Fordson Thames 500E Firefly appliances with which they were equipped. Ordered by the Ministry of Supply with bodies by Wadham Brothers in Waterlooville, they were built on a three ton chassis, and fitted

with a diminutive ‘cost cutter’ 4-cylinder OHV petrol engine of 3, 611cc and were perhaps somewhat ambitiously designated as pump foam tenders (P/FoT). However, these small appliances only carried 150 gallons of water and 36 gallons of foam compound in a separate tank, along with a Coventry Climax major pump.

Added by Petros on 04 February 2025.

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