Fire Engines Photos

Why are they speccing a brand new truck with crappy rotating beacons nowadays? :S This should have a full-width lightbar.

Added by FYREDUP1 on 09 September 2008.

I have to agree with the previous Post.
Those little blue Rotaing Beacons seem at odds with the High Visibility Stripes, and all the Safety Mirrors.

Great photo.

Regards, from Canada, Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 10 September 2008.

I remember when we first got those small blue beacons over here in the early 1960s we thought they were marvelous - as they replaced two small flashing amber lights over the windscreen !

Added by Ian Moore on 10 September 2008.

Hello Ian:

How bright were those flashing amber lights - did they "wig-wag" eg alternately
flash on and off ?

Was there anything displayed from the rear of the truck, or just the usual tail-lights ?

Just wondering, as I have only seen the lights on photos of preserved trucks of the period.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B


Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 11 September 2008.

Hi Pat,
Good grief no, they didn't wig-wag and were only the size of tail lights to start with ! I'll dig a photo of a Northumberland example out and post it - then you'll see just how dire they were. There was nothing displayed to the rear.

Added by Ian Moore on 12 September 2008.

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