London Fire Brigade 1980s-Soho Fire Engines with Dennis, Dodge & Shelvoke Appliances

[@anthonyp6810]

O yeahhhh the old sound of the fire trucks not just any fire truck but a Dennis. You know you’re in safe hands when Dennis is coming. Love it thanks

[@holdensland3305]

I just love the old siren

[@claudiocarrone545]

Search the Italian sirena pneumatica is beautiful

[@WhiskeyGulf71]

Proper sounding fire engines ! The siren really wasn’t taken as seriously then as the two tone horns (blues & twos) whereas nowadays you just don’t hear two tone horns except on the railways, it’s all sirens, albeit, they have gotten much better. Also back when this was filmed, we still made purpose built fire engines in Britian, not like today where they are mostly based on an existing truck chassis.

[@NeilM01989]

Nice filming, liked and shared 👍🏻🚒

[@paddingtonfire]

Yeah this is between 1990/1. Callsigns on the appliance sides and fire gear are a giveaway. Great footage.

[@naysmith5272]

Great to see this video. The whole ambience is great. I think I saw at least one Vauxhall Carlton as well.

[@pikeyandclaire]

I loved being in the job when we were running these Perkins Dennis’s. (Dyfed). Looked, drove, sounded, and smelt like a real pump.

[@gerardmccuskin8199]

Great fire engines lovely

[@robnewman6101]

Great Fires of London. Fireman Sam.

[@Andrewjg_89]

My Grandad used to be a firefighter and drove those fire trucks around London. Before he switched his job to work on a building construction site in and around London.

[@dereckjtbear2175]

Me too,Good Old days. Cuppa and egg/bacon sandwich

[@greigs9384]

Dennis, with their part time power steering and brakes 😂

[@nzfirephotography]

Miss the old LFB appliances🚒

[@jonathanwarrenberg9260]

Ah, the good old days when firemen and police wore shirt and ties, looked smart and still did a good job.

[@johnchurch4705]

Met and Liverpool police still do, such a shame City of London, BTP and other forces have gone the cheap Lycra top route 😢.

[@jamesfrench7299]

Stupid England letting go of traditions desperate to apart appear modern and generic.

[@Sarahbryson321]

@@johnchurch4705they should bring back custodials in daily service as well. Haven’t seen one in years.

[@Danny-zi6xw]

And tunics!

[@LJ07EBP]

Awesome, love your videos please keep it up

[@robnewman6101]

Action Stations in the 1980s.

[@grahammaguire404]

"2 PINTS OF LAGER AND A PACKET OF CRISPS PLEASE DENNIS" 👍👍

[@YelpBullhorn]

For many years during the ‘80s and ‘90s Soho was the busiest fire station in the world. Not so sure now. Granted most of their call-outs were AFAs and lift rescues, but a shout’s a shout. Caveat: I’m talking about fire calls only, and not medical calls like many firefighters deal with around the globe.

[@dereckjtbear2175]

Ah,..! Good old DENNIS pumps they were great to drive. ,SCANIA/VOLVO and new technology

[@craigsibley8161]

Nice 👍👍👍

[@johnbratley6926]

LFB currently has 15 aerial appliances which includes 4 reserve vehicles . Asset Co (who run LFB) refused to pay for the two 64 metre turntable ladders so the London freemasons raised the 2 million pounds from their members. They also bought a number of staff cars as well. Back in the seventies I believe LFB had 40+ aerials.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Interesting info, thanks! Back then the LFB owned it's own vehicles, now i believe they are all leased.....

[@richardwani2803]

The LFB needs a 120 meter Ariel ladder the 64 meter is still too small with londons buildings getting bigger

[@FarmerJames07]

I wondered why the 64m TLs had the Freemasons name/motif on them.

[@fwof3347]

4:48 stupid bus driver cuts of fire engine …. Ice shot of Route 73 :)

[@Kabaniko-san]

They used PA20A series 2E and PA15A series 1E then, along with 2 tone horns.

[@jonathanpringle8238]

4:20 miss the two tone siren, you sson knew it was cing, and then one person complained and they brought in what we have today you cannot hear it until they on your tail

[@scottl.1568]

I didn't know Dodge made fire trucks 😮

[@nphil93992]

In conjunction with Renault, you can see the Renault emblem above Dodge on the front

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

​@nphil93992 Plus, they were just a chassis supplier. Angus was a popular option for apparatus bodies.

[@grahamdobson7428]

That was just like the old fire station in the middle of chester. That was very bad. When I drove a pump. In 67 I was hit comeing out by a car side on. We was on a person's reported. Still got there in 5 minutes. My boys got 2 people out in the end chester council had to put lights up to stop the traffic. So we had a free way out .I got points and a paid £ 40 .I still say it wasn't my fault.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Sorry to hear about that....i was a bus driver in times past, any knock was always our fault however badly the car was driven!

[@Keithbarber]

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[@connormoroney1106]

Ah yes “Odge”