Something a little differant on ebay. If you read the description states that it MAY have served at Biggin Hill.
Not been into my fire engines I have no idea if this is plausible or not.
By: WebPilot - 1st April 2010 at 09:41
It is possible that it served at Biggin Hill with a different body and was later converted to a turntable ladder. It isn’t that unusual for fire engines to be rebodied or adapted by various owners over the years.
It does happen, but these K4s were built with the turntable ladder in 1943 for the NFS on a Home Office order which would seem at odds with the Biggin Hill suggestion. I suppose that it could have been based at Biggin, but with the NFS rather than with the RAF? There are thought to be something like 12 of the 50 built still extant.
By: WJ244 - 31st March 2010 at 22:30
It is possible that it served at Biggin Hill with a different body and was later converted to a turntable ladder. It isn’t that unusual for fire engines to be rebodied or adapted by various owners over the years.
By: jeepman - 31st March 2010 at 22:30
I think it’s more likely to be ex NFS. RAF domestic sites used Austin K2 ATVs with ladders IIRC
I also think GXNxxx was one of the wartime Registration Number blocks used by the Home Office to register vehicles for the NFS and Civil Defence
(Edit) Here’s a picture of a similar appliance GXN219 -from the same batch as GXN215 – the red one on e-bay
By: Rlangham - 31st March 2010 at 21:44
Can’t imagine a fire engine equipped with just a ladder and no water/foam/co2 is going to make a particularly useful piece of equipment on an airfield
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March 31, 2010 at 8:57 pm