Fire Engines Photos

Anyone know what the Commer at the other end is?

Added by Bill on 20 March 2010.

Brilliant photo, Heston is/was reputed to be one of the largest stations in the UK.

Added by Andy Daley on 20 March 2010.

This picture shows the 1971 Ford D1000-Pyrene FOT that served the London Fire Brigade at London Road (D27 Heston).This appliance remained at Heston until 1980,then went as a reserve FOT relocated to Station D28 Felpham.Its beleaved to have gone out of service in 1988.


Added by Pete Matten on 20 March 2010.

Cracking photo Roger, thanks for sharing.

Added by Paul Warnock on 20 March 2010.

Bill-reference Commer.This was from 1960 and was a Commer QX Emergency Tender(reg-2598 MV).It was new to the Middlesex Fire Brigade(C65-Heston)and then tranferred to the LFB in 1965 and remained at Heston D27(now-London Fire Brigade)until 1972,it then went as a reserve ET.The appliance went out of service its beleaved in 1973.

Added by Pete Matten on 21 March 2010.

Thanks Pete,
Any idea of the Commer's fleet number when it was in service with LFB?

Added by Bill on 21 March 2010.

Bill,fleet number with the LFB for this ET was ET5.A simular Commer appliance also EX-Middlesex that tranferred was registered-27 WMX,this was stationed at A1 Church Street-Edmonton,and was classed as ET4.This later appliance was converted to a Control Unit and was based at G30(LFB)Harrow Road-Wembley.This appliance also beleaved to have gone out of service in 1973.Pete.

Added by Pete Matten on 22 March 2010.

Does anyone know if the Ford Foam Tender DLK 8 J still exists, or has it been scrapped?

Added by Bill Edwards on 04 December 2010.

I drove that Foam tender in 1987 when we had it as a spare at Heston

Added by Turan on 01 March 2013.

Great photo Roger. I am admin for a group on Facebook "Heathrow Fire Past and Present" and was wondering if you would object to this photo being used on the group page?

Added by Les on 14 February 2016.

With the Ford and Commer this is an unusual line up photo for an LFB station...

Added by Rob Johnson on 16 August 2019.

The D1617 was usually operated by fire brigades as either a Snorkel or - like this example - as a foam pumper where its 16 ton GVW could handle the increased weight of an oversized tank. Greater Manchester did operate them as pump water tenders, because in the early years the only way to get a D series with a 170 BHP Perkins V8 Diesel engine was to buy a 16 ton version. Ford SVO then developed a specific fire service chassis, by squeezing the big V8 into a 13 ton frame, giving birth to the 1317 which became the best seller in later years.

More than thirty brigades bought D series, including quite a few standard chassis for all sorts of applications, as well as a variety of SVO variants with normally aspirated or turbocharged engines as well as the first deliveries, which had specially imported Canadian petrol power units.

Added by Rob Johnson on 27 November 2021.

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