Brandweerwagens - Groot-Brittannië: boeken - historie

London's Emergency Service Vehicles

Whether your interest is police, fire, ambulance, or associated emergency and rescue services, this fully illustrated book of nearly 200 images captures central London's many 999 services going about their daily business.
Photographed live from the streets of central London, many of the images vividly capture the drama of fast-moving response vehicles as emergency crews battle through London's congested streets.

Complementing vehicles from the Metropolitan Police Service, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service (including the latter's cycle response unit and rapid response vehicles), are those of the British Transport Police, City of London Police, and Ministry of Defence Police.

London's Air Ambulance high-speed road vehicles, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, British Red Cross Society, St John Ambulance and private ambulance firms are also highlighted. Mounted and marine unit sections of the Metropolitan Police are not overlooked, nor are their red-coloured Diplomatic Protection Group units and Special Escort Group motorcycles escorting very important people - including royalty.

Dave Boulter offers a real flavour of the modern central London emergency scene, making this lavishly illustrated volume a must for anyone with an interest in emergency vehicles.

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Classic Post-war British Fire Engines

In 1973 there were approximately 150 Fire Brigades protecting the United Kingdom - all with their own ideas on how to design and specify fire engines. However, local government reorganisation the following year was about to change that.

This book is a unique photographic record by distinguished fire engine photographers John Toomey, who came especially from New York, and Andrew Henry. It documents the amazing diversity of British post-war fire engines. Captions and an expert commentary are provided by the highly respected Fire Brigade author and historian Ron Henderson.

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British Steam Fire Engines

This is the fascinating story of the development of early British steam fire engines by a renowned expert on emergency services vehicles and equipment. Ronald Henderson, a member of the Fire Brigade Society and an expert on steam engines, covers the history of the early inventions that coupled steam with fire pumps.

This includes the concepts created by firms such as Braithwaite & Ericsson and their steam fire pump and also further inventions by Merryweather & Sons and Shand, Mason & Co., including hand-drawn and horse-drawn fire engines.

This book will appeal to all steam enthusiasts and to those who are interested in early industrial technology. It provides a fascinating insight into the way that steam was harnessed to improve the efficiency of firefighting services and how that led to the modern fire engines of today.

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Fire-fighting Vehicles in Preservation

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Dit boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van bewaard gebleven brandweervoertuigen, een categorie die vaak veel publieke belangstelling trekt. Oude brandweerwagens vormen een hoogtepunt op evenementen, waar bemanningen in historische uniformen en glanzende messing helmen demonstraties geven. Soms worden een draaibare ladder of slanghaspels getoond, al verhinderen moderne veiligheidsregels meestal een oefening met echt vuur.

Brandweerkorpsen ontstonden in de negentiende eeuw, tegelijk met de opkomst van het gemotoriseerde wegverkeer. Hun geschiedenis kan daarom worden gevolgd aan de hand van de voertuigen die zijn bewaard gebleven. In Groot-Brittannië werden deze voertuigen meestal door Britse fabrikanten gebouwd, maar ook Europese en Amerikaanse voorbeelden komen aan bod.

Auteur Malcolm Batten toont deze ontwikkeling met veel niet eerder gepubliceerde foto's en duidelijke toelichtingen.

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HCB-Angus Fire Engines - A Pictorial Record

HCB-Angus produced some 6,500 fire engines in their factory at Totton, Southampton, for fire services all around the world, and for many UK Brigades.

The author presents a pictorial record, in chronological order, of some of the more significant designs, each with an informative caption. All types of appliance are shown, from UK domestic to refinery, military, and aviation, and from Land Rover to massive Thornycroft Nubian - they made them all.

Needless to say, only a fraction of the total production is illustrated, but this book contains a good representative sample. The author has had exclusive access to the company's archive of photographs, as well as technical papers and brochures preserved by the company and now in his custody, to produce this photographic account.

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