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The company ultimately specialized in the manufacture of fire proximity suits, and fire protective and safety clothing for the Royal Air Force, the offshore oil industry, and fire brigades. Wathen Gardiner & Co and Bristol Uniforms remained separate companies until Wathen Gardiner & Co dropped their name, and merged with Bristol Uniforms, which ...
This is a List of United Kingdom uniformed services which includes all uniformed public, emergency, armed and charity services in the United Kingdom and overseas territories.
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue officer fighting a fire at a reclamation yard in July 2013 A South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue appliance at Rotherham fire station. Currently the service operates 21 fire stations across the county, which are staffed on a wholetime basis, wholetime and day-crewed, wholetime and retained, or retained-only.
Fire Detection and Alarm Council - The home for fire detection and alarm equipment manufacturers and suppliers; Fire Engineering Council - Representing fire engineering service providers across the UK; Fire Risk Assessment Council - Representing fire risk assessment services; FIRESA Council - Manufacturers/suppliers of goods & service to the ...
TWFRS Volvo appliances outside Gateshead fire station in 2018. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, formerly known as the Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, is the fire and rescue service (FRS) for the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland, serving a population of 1.14 million people across an area of 208 square miles ...
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.
Emergency vehicle equipment is used in the United Kingdom to indicate urgent journeys by an emergency service. This usage is colloquially known as "blues and twos", which refers to the blue lights and the two-tone siren once commonplace (although most sirens now have a range of tones like Wail, Yelp, Phaser, and Hi-Lo).
A historical fire engine pumped by hand with the water supply held in a tub or cistern on the wagon, the water supply delivered by a bucket brigade. The similar terms hand pumper or hand engine may be a handtub or could have a suction hose drafting water from an external source rather than a tub, but still pumped manually.