MISCELLANEOUS VEHICLES

This page contains a selection of general pictures plus vehicles which are either not yet allocated, not allocated to a specific station, or the exact allocation is unknown.

Lancashire Fire Brigade's Friendly Society Parade held on the Market Square, Wigan in 1890.
[Copyright ~ Wigan Archives Services, Wigan Heritage Service, W.L.C.T and reproduced with permission.]

Leyland Cheetah Coach MRN347T
[Copyright picture ~ A. Kent and reproduced with permission.]

The prototype Leyland Freighter was seen at Witton Park, Blackburn in 1986.
[From the M. Hopton collection and reproduced with permission.]

It is likely that this is another shot of the appliance above.
[From the Paul Warnock Collection and reproduced with permission.]
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Almost certainly a unique shot, at least since striping was added, of Emergency One bodied Leyland 60s ~ L164/5/6 DCW ~ 19 June 2008.

Ford Transit Catering Unit BL04NWG was seen at Headquarters 23 October 2006.

This rear shot was taken at the 10 pump fire on Fleetwood Pier, 9 September 2008.

The 3rd Mobile Fire Station PO56VLR was seen at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, 22 May 2007.
It has since been allocated to Lancaster Fire Station.

This new Vauxhall PCV was seen at a 10 pump incident at Belmont, 4 May 2007.

Main Control in the new CSUs with Fire Ground Radio on the left and Main Scheme Radio on the right.

Breathing Apparatus Main Control

Additional Computer Terminals which can be used for mapping incidents etc.

As well as making incident information from the computer terminals available to officers both inside and outside the vehicle,
the Plasma Screen will also be used for Community Fire Safety Information when the vehicle is in Moblie Fire Station Mode.

New in 2008 was this offroad vehicle, which although not visible in these pictures, is blue-lighted.
It was seen at Headquarters, 12 February 2008.

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