Fire Engines Photos

Looking very Sad! Suffolk had some TKs with RR B61 petrol engines. At one time HCB offered several alternatives to the Bedford petrol engines. Like some other brigades, Suffolk clung on to petrol engines but wanted something more powerful than Bedford's offering. That was before diesel engines became generally more widely acceptable.

Added by Jerry Hepworth on 20 August 2016.

Some later TKs were also built with the AEC AV470 diesel engine, but I have no record of which fire services bought any of them. I remember them becoming available in the mid to late 1960s, and they were famous for their unusual reverse H five speed manual transmission. Very odd!

Dieselization of fire appliances was a slow process in the UK, and even by 1970 a lot of brigades were still buying petrol engined units. The eleven Ford D series I sold to Gloucestershire in 1968 were specially built with Canadian-sourced petrol engines, despite the fact that the brigade had already bought two Merryweather-AEC diesel TLs.

Added by Rob Johnson on 10 October 2016.

I own GBJ325N With its RR Engine.

Added by Chris on 28 February 2025.

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