Fire Engines Photos

Those bumper guards don't look like they would do much to help protect the front mounted pump in anything more than a minor scrape.

Front mounted pumps had many advantages, and were very popular in central and northern Europe for many years up to the 1960s, as well as being very common on commercial chassis fire pumpers in the Americas - not to mention being a highly distinctive feature of the famous Ahrens-Fox brand!

But their exposure to accident damage was a major drawback, fancy bumper guards notwithstanding...

Added by Rob Johnson on 21 April 2018.

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