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Buckinghamshire MAN turntable ladder
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No: 9727   Contributor: Adam Floyd   Year: 2007   Manufacturers: Angloco, MAN   Country: United Kingdom
Buckinghamshire MAN turntable ladder

The Buckinghamshire brigade has only two aerial appliances, one of which is the unique in the UK Quint. The other is this compact MAN F90 with Angloco body and 24-metre Metz ladder, stationed at High Wycombe (callsign HWY8) but seen at the Buckingham open day on 14th July 2007.
Picture added on 05 August 2008
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At the moment this is the only operational aerial appliance in Buckinghamshire as the Quint has been off the run for several months awaiting a new part. It is on loan from Wycombe to Aylesbury to provide cover for the whole county from around the centre. Bedfordshire's aerial can be called upon if a second is required.

Added by Adam Floyd on 20 September 2008.
The fleet manager should be sacked for the letting the quint be off the run for such a period of time, yet another example of putting ill thought out appliances into service without any thought of life or cover within the brigade, and in this day and age, it's shocking in any part of the world, let alone the uk.

Scrap the heap and purchase a dedicated hp or tl and a proper pummping appliance too!

Added by John Johnstone on 21 September 2008.
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