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The Rosenbauer Group is the world’s third largest manufacturers of fire-service vehicles and firefighting equipment, based in Leonding, Austria. Rosenbauer supplies the fire fighting sector in over 100 countries with a wide range of custom fire and rescue apparatus and services. It produces its extensive series of fire fighting vehicles and ...
Available with a payload of up to 5 tonnes, the then very modern truck in cab-over-engine design enabled greater manoeuvrability in urban environments. Two different wheelbases were available, and the chassis provided the basis for various bodies. For example, the Fordson Thames 7V was the most widely used fire truck during the Second World War.
This fire engine, used by the Toronto Fire Services, is an example of firefighting apparatus. A firefighting apparatus (North American English) [1] or firefighting appliance (UK English) [2] describes any vehicle that has been customized for use during firefighting operations. These vehicles are highly customized depending on their needs and ...
Badge from a REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck A REO Speed Wagon, from a 1917 advertisement A REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck at Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee 1929 REO Speedwagon EX REO at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. 6 cylinder Flathead "Gold Comet", 4-speed transmission, Top speed of 35 MPH REO Speed Wagon Truck 1939 1948, 2 1/2 ton REO Speed Wagon truck used to haul grain on the Camas ...
In July 2010, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service began a six-month trial of two fire bikes to be used to fight small fires, freeing up main appliances. Merseyside has also deployed other bikes for various uses since 2005. Several UK fire services use fire bikes not for firefighting, but as motorcycle road safety awareness tools.
A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...
Sterling Trucks (United States) Stewart & Stevenson (United States) Studebaker (United States) Scot (Canada) [citation needed] Tesla Motors (United States) Traffic (United States) UD Trucks (different models for U.S. market) Volvo Trucks (different models for U.S. market) Vicinity Motor Corp. (Canada) Walter (United States) White (United States)
Commercial type vehicles including: trucks, off-highway, fire-trucks, trailers, and buses, accounted for the rest. A total of 2,053 NO models alone were produced from 1940 to 1945. The 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6 NO was the most important specifically military model, and could be used as a transport or tractor for the 155 mm Long Tom field gun. Mack ...