Fire Engines Photos

This is a Ford D series, based at Luton, WrL body by Carmichaels. See


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Added by Adrian Carmichael on 18 May 2022.

The HCB-Angus split tilt crew cab water tender depicted in photo 43213 on this site was a design which integrated the coachbuilt crew cab with the D series tilting factory cab in a much more stylish fashion than these Carmichael bodies and the almost identical CFE ones.

After tilt cabs were introduced - first by AEC and Ford - fire appliance builders often struggled to integrate them. The earliest HCB Angus bodies on eleven D series for Gloucestershire built in 1966 were indeed quite hideous, as illustrated by many examples on this site....

Added by Rob Johnson on 19 May 2022.

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