Fire Engines Photos

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Added by Mars on 05 March 2007.

This vehicle is a Dennis Big 6 built in 1934 new to City of York. It served there till the late 1950s then went to a training school at Gipton fire station in Leeds till some time in the 1960s. It is now owned and run by my Dad Rick and myself Mark Loudon. This Picture was take on The Mall in London in July 2005 during a week long display as part of the VE Day celebrations

Added by Mark Loudon on 05 March 2007.

Now Mark this is a real fire engine! What a beautiful restoration/preservation job. These 1930s appliances were so elegant and simply shouted workmanship. I don't know if it is my all-time favourite, but it has to be one of them. In my book, some of the contemporary Dennises came close, as did the American Macks and Ahrens-Fox, along with the French Delahayes and Danish Triangels.

Pity so many "classics" are now not much more than lorries with boring grey aluminium boxes on the back!

Added by Rob Johnson on 04 June 2013.

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