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Albion M'weather PE London DGJ307
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No: 44232   Contributor: Petros   Year: 1939   Manufacturers: Albion, Merryweather   Country: United Kingdom
Albion M'weather PE London DGJ307

in the yard Lambeth FS. About 1938. Brand new design Merryweather 50' escape. Hose reel is inside the cab of the limousine body.

Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.

Picture added on 03 July 2023 at 09:37
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Clearly illustrating what a good idea it was to fit the pump amidships if you were going to carry a wheeled escape ladder.

Funny that by this date London was still buying new pump escapes with rear mounted pumps, when the very first Merryweather municipal pump escape (delivered to the London borough of Finchley thirty five years earlier) in 1904 already had a mid mounted pump!

Added by Rob Johnson on 04 July 2023.
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