Fire Engines Photos

I was always impressed by the BSPP dress uniform, especially the gleaming metal helmets, which were actually their firefighting gear too for many years - until the Gallett “ spacemen’s” helmets were fairly recently eventually adopted. I also found it interesting that in WWI the French army adopted the same metal fire service helmet for their infantry, because at the start of the war they had not thought about equipping them with shrapnel proof headgear. These were of course matte painted rather than the highly polished fire helmets - which would have made the wearers a bit too conspicuous to enemy snipers!


Added by Rob Johnson on 12 August 2023.

Metal chrome helmets so called (1933 models) are kept for official use for all FD in France

Added by Jacques PETER on 13 August 2023.

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