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My latest model scale about 1:64
Dinky Dodge Kew tipper lorry originally
Plastikard sides
This was originally with Essex County Fire brigade (see below) but was then absorbed into London 1.4.1965 and based at East Ham. see this picture of London livery
www.mediastorehouse.com.au/mary-evans-prints-online/londo...
Peterborough rally 1982. This style of Dennis is known as "The Flying Pig" because of the nose I guess.
A pair of these DPU15 and DPU16 served Loughton fire station for the Chigwell brigade.
Served at MGM studios WFB. Does this survive? I can find no recent photos at all.
Copyright Malcolm Batten. Used with permission.
later belonged to Wren Davis, Dairy farmers in Bucks and steam enthusiasts. See below
Re-registered. This is a 1953 Dennis F12 pump escape which served at Grays. It had previously been in preservation as 999 HAT but has now recovered its original registration of WTW 749. Now at Essex Fire Museum Grays.
Photo taken at their Chiltern Steam Rally, 1990s.
Copyright Malcolm Batten. Used with permission.
Aug 1989 Marks Tey Steam Rally.
Does it survive. No recent photos.
Copyright Malcolm Batten. Used with permission.
left to right
Fire Brigade Models Essex
My TeamA chemical incident unit
My TeamA recovery truck
allocated to Grays (862YPU) and Colchester (863YPU).
PEST stands for pump emergency salvage tender. Note had front mounted 1000gpm pump. 300 gall tank, EPCO hydraulic gear. Full details in Fire Engines of Eastern England page 82.
The photo shows quite clearly how the two door cab had the OIC's seat in the centre, with two side bench seats facing each other for the rest of the crew. This layout enabled everyone to access the center aisle body, like a classic ET of this era.
Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.
from a sales brochure in my private collection. All these seem to have been disposed of early by Essex and ended up in Cork
LWC620P1976Land Rover 109HCB-Angus
LWC621P1976Land Rover 109HCB-Angus
LWC622P1976Land Rover 109HCB-Angus
VNO24S 1978 Land Rover 109Anglo
VNO25S 1978Land Rover 109Anglo
During World War 2 ,around 1,000 pumps were built on Bedford chassis, and most were capable of producing 700gpm through four delivery outlets and were designated Heavy Units. Also during this same period of time many were produced and could deliver 1,100gpm through six deliveries and were designated as Extra Heavy Units.
This one is an extra heavy - see six deliveries here
www.tilburyandchadwellmemories.org.uk/content/people/tilb...
Was based Tilbury Essex. More info here
www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number13932.asp
The EHUs seem to have had a longer wheelbase giving an extra locker each side. They also had 7" suction rather than the 51/2" of the heavy units.
www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number14059.asp?msg=Co...
Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.
early post war water tenders were fairly crude affairs based on wartime NFS vehicles.
Station 66 might be Waltham Abbey.
Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.
Bought 1988. Why a UK fire service would want to buy such a sophisticated piece of kit is a bit of a mystery. It was sold in the mid 1990s to a recovery operator in Somerset and then sold on to one near Shrewsbury, repainted blue. Essex nicknamed it "Big Foot" for obvious reasons.
In Essex served at Chelmsford and was called Extra Heavy lift vehicle (EHLV). Very very expensive white elephant according to reports . Private recovery firms had all this kit and top speed was 40mph. May have been exported to New Zealand later.
There are excellent video clips of this beast in action on you tube. Just search on 'Basildon pump engine crashes en route Hospital' - a rare sight indeed.
Photo from 1990. Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.
Photo taken 1999 the Lizard. The Drake bodied Austin is rare as very few Drake bodied appliances were built. They were a Plymouth firm and Cornwall had several.
www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number40099.asp
The Leyland served Clacton, then Essex then Blackpool Pleasure Beach as a maintenance vehicle.
www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number7324.asp
Courtesy Geoff Pritchard collection acquired via the Fire Brigade Society.
Essex County Fire & Rescue Service
Emergency Services Show 2022
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1984 Exhibition NEC Birmingham. Platform went to Southend.
PE No3 of Southend-on-Sea FB not an AEC Mercury. It is a Maudslay Merlin II. BUT...
Maudslay were taken over by AEC in 1948 so after then it was an AEC even if an original Maudslay design. early days of badge engineering. See also
www.romar.org.uk/page62.html
Exhibition hall (Olympia, Earls Court c.1960) photo by Norman Tarling. PEST stands for pump emergency salvage tender. Note front mounted 1000gpm pump. 300 gall tank, EPCO hydraulic gear. Based at Colchester. Full details in Fire Engines of Eastern England page 82.
The photo shows quite clearly how the two door cab had the OIC's seat in the centre, with two side bench seats facing each other for the rest of the crew. This layout enabled everyone to access the center aisle body, like a classic ET of this era, and you can in fact see one man standing back there.
It had a set of back doors, too, just like other ETs in the sixties, but I am surprised they found room for a 300 gallon water tank - were there perhaps actually two smaller ones, either side of the aisle, like Leeds' unique F8s? See also
www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number38254.asp
1970s photo by Norman Tarling. This is the first Dodge Kew to appear on this site, a rare type favoured by Essex who had them both in this red configuration, and with aluminium sides later e.g. 757-763JNO. 763 turned over and ended up on its roof. The early Essex Kews had a immediate post war heavy pump appearance with open rear deck. Circuses often has ex local authority appliances.
Norman Tarling photo
to the rear a Pinzgauer with Saxon bodywork ex Essex fire, and now used fro dry riser testing. Foreground Essex Pinzgauer with JDC bodywork.
Maldon Show 2004 - drill boat launch
Pilcher Greene mainly built small units so the three they built for Essex were giants by their standards. This one was based at Colchester.