Vintage Roadscene - Issue 218 - January 2018

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VINTAGE ROADSCENE 6 Range Rover Fire Engines 52 Model Roadscene – What’s New?
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Above: Here’s another nice sunny picture to brighten our winter days. Fascinating stuff; it’s a Scammell Publicity Department shot, which came with the
Bedford dealer pictures from Andy Rust, seen elsewhere in this issue. We have a carnival fl oat from Capital Motors, most likely of Watford or possibly Luton
– can a reader confi rm? The Vauxhall dealer was showing off the latest Victor model, the 1960-’61 ‘F’, sometimes now called an ‘FA’, now with the larger back
window, along with a Vauxhall from 1904, according to its Veteran Car Club plate. Some of the staff had donned period dress to match – although to us
today, the dresses of the ladies at the rear with the Victor look just as dated. Interestingly, the un-registered Bedford TK – no trade-plates, just a carnival
entry number, E15 – no doubt fi tted with a Scammell coupling for the step-frame trailer, was without the usual fl ashing indicators beside the side-lights
and the ‘B’ of Bedford on the front was wonky. Somebody would be in trouble, even if they were having a lovely day out...
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elcome to what I have Archive since moving to Kelsey Publishing. winter will soon be over, and we’ll all be out
worked out must be my We’re up to issue 16 of that series, the latest of and about again.
100th issue as editor of which is previewed in these pages. It’s based Which neatly brings me to a note I’ve
Vintage Roadscene – on pictures taken while on holiday in Malta received from Peter Johnston of the Ulster
doesn’t time fly! I’d like to by Tom Caren of the British Motor Museum at Vintage Commercial Vehicle Club – he of the
think that I and my contributors, without Gaydon – you’ll know him as the organiser of Shelvoke & Drewry vehicle collection – about
whom there couldn’t be a magazine, of the Classic Commercial Vehicle Show. Lots of a safety training course for organisers of
course, have done a good job and that all of sunny pictures of lorries which were already vintage shows and road runs they are running
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RANGE ROVER FIRE ENGINES
Ron Henderson looks at how fi re services used this type of vehicle.
Above and right: Before the advent of
Carmichael’s six-wheeled Commando
conversion, the standard factory Range
Rover was adopted by some fi re brigades,
but very few were converted into fi re
engines with pumping facilities. This one,
pictured in February 1992 at the now
demolished Doncaster Airport, was one
of a pair supplied to the Royal Aircraft
Establishment, Farnborough in 1971.
T
he Range Rover was launched in
June 1970, as a successor to the
illustrious Land Rover, and featured
similar off-road capabilities but
with higher performance and a
more luxurious interior. The original two door However, it was a unique Carmichael standard Range Rover cab with full size forward
model fulfilled many functions for emergency conversion that impressed Britain’s chief fire hinged doors and forward tipping and sliding
service duties, with the ambulance, police and officers. Marketed as the ‘Commando’ the seats with an option for a five man cab. The
fire services, but its suitability for conversion prototype, a 6x4 vehicle built on a Rover body was constructed from aluminium and
for front line fire service roles was limited by its pre-production prototype, featured a chassis glass fibre. Large lockers were provided on
size and load-carrying capacity. extension of 34 inches, formed by inserting a each side, behind the crew compartment, with
A few standard Range Rovers were adapted frame section between the original rear axle a further locker at the rear, enclosed with roller
as small rescue tenders and general utility and rear end, allowing the fitting of a standard shutter locker covers.
vehicles but, unlike the plethora of Land Rover rear (trailing) axle, without the final drive gear. The Commando Water Tender featured a
fire engines of all series, only two Range Rovers The front of the chassis was also extended single-stage 500 gallons per minute Coventry
were fitted with PTO driven pumps. Supplied in order to accommodate a pump, driven Climax Godiva centrifugal pump mounted at
by Sun Engineering of Sunbury on Thames for directly from the crankshaft. The standard the front, feeding a single hose reel, with 180ft
service with the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Rover V8 OHV engine and four speed manual of rubber hose mounted in a rear locker. A
Farnborough, these very compact fire engines transmission was retained. Four versions were glass fibre tank contained 200 gallons of water.
featured an inbuilt pump mounted in the rear offered initially by Carmichael. A heat exchanger for both oil and water was
boot space. The Commando-Standard featured the fitted in the engine compartment, to cool the
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Right: The prototype Carmichael
Commando demonstrator during one
of its development stages. Lettered
‘Rapid Intervention Vehicle’, it was
exhibited at one of the annual Chief
Fire Offi cers conferences. During one
period of development it appeared at the
Farnborough Air Show with two sets of
lockers on each side and no pump. This
one featured an aluminium body but all
the production models had bodies made
of glass fi bre.
Above: The same unit, following a
rebuild and now featuring a different
body with additional windows behind
the cab, updated pump and the addition
of a roof monitor. These features were
retained until it was sold to Marshall’s
of Cambridge for service at Cambridge
airport.
engine when the machine was stationary and
pumping water. No ladders were included but
were available at extra cost.
The third version was the Commando-
Emergency Aircraft Rescue unit, designed
as a first strike vehicle with the ability to
arrive quickly at the scene of any emergency,
ahead of the heavier emergency fire-fighting
appliances. This model featured the standard
two-door cab, with a short locker immediately
behind, which contained the pump for a roof
mounted monitor and an air compressor for
power-operated rescue tools. The roof monitor
was capable of discharging foam at a rate
of up to 2000 gallons per minute, manually
controlled from inside the cab. The rest of
the body was a flat bed design, upon which
an exposed water and foam tank was fitted,
together with two exposed seats for additional
crew-members.
Above: Luton Borough Council was the fi rst authority to commission a Carmichael Commando
An alternative design marketed as a ‘Rapid
fi re engine, for service at Luton Airport. Although equipped with a comprehensive array of
rescue equipment, it did not have a front mounted pump. Intervention Appliance’, featured a front
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Above: An example of the Commando
water tender with front mounted pump
and comprehensive set of ladders, hoses
and beaters stored on the roof. Delivered
to Somerset Fire Brigade in 1972 for
Dulverton fi re station, this one is shown
when in preservation at the now defunct
Devonport Fire Museum.
mounted pump, roof monitor and a full-
length enclosed body containing 200 gallons
of premix foam solution and 100kg of BCF
chemical fire extinguishing medium.
The final model was a Fire Command and
Communications Car, which featured four
windows on each side of the body in the
manner of the 6x4 Highlander custom car/
personnel carrier model. modifications during its development and Above: The Commando Emergency Aircraft
The prototype Carmichael Commando demonstration processes, before being sold Rescue unit of Humberside Airport,
showing the exposed foam tank. Four
rapid intervention appliance, equipped with in 1974 to Marshalls of Cambridge, where it
examples were sold to Jersey Airport.
a front-mounted pump, underwent several operated for many years at the local airport Finished in an all over yellow livery, these
ones had a front mounted pump and
larger foam tanks.
before being acquired for preservation.
The first customer to take delivery of a
Commando was Luton Airport, which received
a rescue tender in 1972. Bedfordshire Fire
Brigade was the next customer, becoming
the first of many local authority fire brigades
to commission a Carmichael Commando,
ordering four ‘Fire Rescue Units’ with front
mounted pumps in 1972.
The next conversions went to Anglesey,
Northern Area, (Scotland) and Guernsey.
Thereafter, production increased with
examples being sold to dozens of customers
throughout the United Kingdom, as well
as overseas in countries as far away as the
Caribbean, the Middle East and New Zealand.
Above: This one was still in operational service when pictured at Connington Airport,
Part 2 will examine some of the other
Peterborough in September 2014. It was one of a pair originally delivered to Manchester
Airport. Dating from 1977, it is probably the last one of its type in service. Carmichael Commando developments.
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Bedford Dealer’s Pictures
Andy Rust brings us a collection of pictures which were used as sales aids by a Bedford dealership.
This Vauxhall Motors picture had been used in
the March 1953 Bedford Transport Magazine. Its
purpose was to show the double-deck removable
livestock carrier body, built by Penman’s of
Dumfries. the early Bedford ‘S’ Type, GBU 775
(Oldham, 1950), of F Roper & Son, of Jericho Farm,
Woodhouses, Ashton-under-Lyne, ‘Bulk Feeders of
Quality Bacon Pigs’. They obviously needed a lot
of transport, as the S Type is seen with three ‘OL’
platform lorries, GBU 611 of 1950, HBU 21 of 1951
and KVR 68 (Manchester, 1950) – and a ‘muck-
spreader’ in the background. Why did they need to
cut out the trees in the background of the picture?
Whatever, it makes an interesting fl eet ‘line-up.
A Right: 1: A rear view of the Roper & Son
ndy Rust is a well-known Wales Road, in Norwich, a leading supplier of
vehicle, with the loading ramp down,
member the Historic Bedfords in East Anglia. showing the interior, with the second ramp
Commercial Vehicle Society. He The pictures were used by the dealer’s for the upper deck.
2: A ‘cattle truck of Atlas Garages, of Newport,
has offered us the use of this salesmen used to show prospective lorry
Monmouthshire’, GKG 501 (Cardiff, 1952), on
collection of pictures which buyers how Bedford chassis could be bodied an ‘S’ Type 7 ton long wheelbase chassis.
were obtained from a one time Bedford to suit the needs of their business. 3: A view from the rear, showing details of
the interior of the removable livestock body
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4: A stylish wooden-panelled side and rear-
loading horsebox, VBP 210 (West Sussex,
1956), which looks as if it was built on a
Bedford ‘SB’ passenger chassis, by Vincents of
Reading, well-known for this type of vehicle
5: Another Bedford ‘S’ Type with a removable
livestock body on its platform. Notice
this one has those ‘squared-off’ Bedford
rear mudguards and there is a fl ap in the
headboard, through which the driver would
be able to see the cattle being carried. This
one, on Cardiganshire tradeplates, 013 EJ,
was supplied by Nelson Garages, to local
haulage contractors, John Jones & Sons.
See how the cab has been painted with a
wood-grain effect to match the cattle body.
This picture appeared in Bedford Transport
Magazine for November 1951.
6&7: This Bedford ‘S’ cattle truck was built
for A G Banks of Wistow, Huntingdonshire. On
the back of the print, it says that this double-
deck cattle body, supplied by T Scotney, of
St Ives, then in Huntingdonshire, was built
on a Bedford ‘SB’ chassis. The advantage was
Above: A side view of the Roper & Son Bedford ‘S’ Type cattle truck, presumably taken at the
that the lower chassis rails offered a lower
company’s Jericho Farm base.
loading height and centre of gravity.
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