DENNIS

Fire Engines in preservation

Dennis fire appliance production rekindled

1 September 2008
Production of Dennis fire appliances is set to restart, as an indirect result of MAN’s ditching of plans to build refuse collection vehicles. Alexander Dennis stopped building fire appliances a year ago following demands from its cab supplier Dennis Eagle (owned by Ros Roca of Spain) for guaranteed orders for at least 50 a year. Unable to commit to that number, Alexander Dennis stopped production of fireappliance chassis at its Dennis Fire plant in Guildford, Surrey while another cab supplier was sought (Transport Engineer December 2007). But at the Fire & Rescue show in Liverpool last month Dennis Fire was telling brigades that production would restart next year, with the familiar Cromweld stainless-steel cab built by Dennis Eagle in Blackpool.
There will be no immediate return to the fire-appliance market for Guildford-built Sabres because Dennis Fire has decided to skip Euro-4 engines and go straight to Euro-5. “We can’t get the first of these from Cummins until next March,” explains Dennis Fire general manager Roger Paice. “It will probably be June before we see the first chassis.”- Re-Printed courtesy of the 'Transport Engineer'.

This private collection based in the North East of England is of mainly DENNIS fire appliances.

REG. NO.	YEAR	MANUFACTURER	MODEL TYPE	CLASSIFICATION
ED810	1914	Dennis	'N' Type	Pump
SN1549	1920	Dennis	'N' Type	Pump
BH0500	1920	Dennis	'N' Type	Pump
FA1075	1921	Dennis	'N' Type	Pump Escape
N/A	1923	Dennis	Trailer Pump	No.2 Pump
NKR31525	1927	Dennis	Ajax	Pump
FA4067	1930	Dennis	Low Load 60/70HP	Pump Escape
JD1490	1931	Dennis	BIg 6	Pump Escape
BPB644	1931	Dennis	Big 4	Pump Escape
FP3564	1938	Dennis	Light 4	Pump Escape
EUP313	1941	Dennis	Light 4 New World	Pump
OZ9607	1954	Dennis	F17 Metz 125' TLP	Turn Table Ladder
DSN175	1953	Dennis	F8	Pump
999MHN	1960	Leyland	Firemaster Magirus 100' TL	Turn Table Ladder
EBB783C	1965	Dennis	F107 Emergency Tender	Heavy ET
GDY99F	1967	AEC Merryweather	Merryweather 100' TL	Turn Table Ladder
DHN999J	1970	Dennis	F108 Maxim/Holmes 750	Heavy Rescue Tender
SBB564M	1974	Dennis	F109 Water Tender	Water Tender
SPY762R	1977	Dennis	R130 'R' Series	Water Tender
FGR281S	1977	Dennis	F60 Emergency Tender	Heavy ET
RTN144S	1977	Dennis	F123 Delta Magirus 100' TL	Turntable Ladder
STY31S	1978	Dennis	F131 Water Tender	Water Tender
ETN909W	1980	Shelvoke	SPV Emergency Tender	Heavy ET
EBB846W	1980	Dennis	Dominator	Incident Command Unit
EBB847W	1980	Shelvoke	SPV Foam Tender	Foam Tender
B759GCN	1982	Dennis	SS131 Water Tender	Fire Boat Transporter
D785XRG	1984	Dennis	SS131 Water Tender	Water Tender