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East Sussex Bedford TK Chemical Incident Unit
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No: 5899   Contributor: Pete Matten   Year: 1985   Manufacturer: Bedford   Country: United Kingdom
East Sussex Bedford TK Chemical Incident Unit

PWV 74X.1981 Bedford TK 1260 Chassis with bodywork by Pilcher Green,a local Sussex Company.This was the East Sussex Fire Brigades Chemical Incident Unit and it was located all its operational life at Eastbourne Fire Station.The1981 Bedford Chemical Incident Unit having served its time operationally at Eastbourne was then during the late 1990's converted by the brigades workshops into a Fire Safety Exhibition Unit.

Picture added on 23 January 2008
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according to Fire Cover 189 page 55 this has been converted to a mobile hair dressing salon around Heathfield. A first for a fire engine?

Added by Peter Williams on 05 December 2010.
Yes this is Right Peter

Added by Harveydan on 06 December 2010.
This appliance was not only a chemical unit but doubled as a rescue tender as well.

Added by John on 25 August 2011.
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