London Fire Brigade AEC TLs at Soho, Wembley & Tottenham
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- Опубліковано 1 січ 2018
- In the mid 1980s the London Fire Brigade still had 5 AEC Turntable Ladder applicances working at various stations around London. Seen here are some of them going out on shouts and returning to their stations. Soho, Wembley & Tottenham stations are shown here. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
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Absolutely fantastic Two Tone Air Horns.
That's fantastic seein the old AECs responding with two tones.
I don't thing they were ever modified and ran until withdrawn in as built condition....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Could've lasted another 50 years!
@@CobraEmergency Like the AEC Routemasters, they were built to last!
@@CobraEmergency it would be nice to think a few dozen are stored away somewhere. Just in case.
@@decam5329 Wishful thinking, they've started selling the Mercedes aerials now
It was great seeing one pass a Routemaster. The grill on this era truck always reminded me of the grill on the RM.
I also liked seeing the Dennis doing duty at the same time. A rarely captured window of time.
Seeing an AEC, Dennis, Rover SD1 squad car and a Metrobus in the one shot was amazing.
It's god fun to look at the vid and look beyond the target subject to see what else lurks in the background. A lot of my viewers do just that and see things that I've missed or just not noticed, which is great!
When I was posted to Kingsland April 1983 there was one on the run there ,and it still had its bell 🛎 (and two tones )
Amazing footage...those AEC's are fantastic. I hope at least one has made it into preservation. Don't recall these as I was too young to know. I do however remember those Dennis engines really well. They brought one to our school once, went in the cab and pressed the horn, loved it! A great memory for a 7-year old kid. My local was Finchley Fire Station, it used to be connected directly to the North Circular Rd at Long Lane junction before the rebuilding with a fly-over cut it off. On the other side was the Lucas C.A.V factory (ex-Simm's Motor Units), I just about remember it still functioning before closing in 1991. At the back of Finchley Fire Station they had an LT DMS (late B20) still in white-top delivery, a defective machine from Enfield I think, they used it for fire training. This would have been circa 1989.
Thanks for your memories.... i know some LFB TL's are preserved but i'm not sure if those seen here made it into preservation....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Very welcome. Good to know a few were saved at least. Again, thanks for all the fantastic uploads.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus JUL61D was last taxed on 1/11/1994, and had a V5 issued on 9/8/1999, so probably no longer extant. The good news is that EYX248C is currently on a SORN, and had a new V5 on 9/11/2012, so may still be out there. Interesting footnote; many Metropolitan Police vehicles registered in 1966 were also JUL with a "D" suffix, probably because this block of registrations was allocated to the GLC for LFB and Met vehicle purchases.
240 FLM still exists, and is beautifully preserved. Can be seen at events all over London.
Fantastic. Not only wonderful TLs but also glimpses of Routemasters!
My mate who was with me, drove the 38s for a living and didn't want me filming them! Even though he was into all things AEC, which is why he got me out & about with the vid camera to film the AEC TLs which he had spotted running while driving past on his bus. He soon got me filming everything LFB that moved and made friends with some of the fire crews at Soho. I think he was a frustrated fireman! I will have to get another LFB one up soon, i do have more including shots inside Ruislip and Lambeth works!
Bring back the two tone sirens
Great old fire trucks
Now those are proper two tones
I need to get some more LFB vids up, my mate & i chased the AEC TL's all over the place. I spent hours outside Soho fire station waiting for action to happen in order to get live filming of them in action!
Great video, brings back memories of a TL based at Dagenham ( L25 ) and Poplar.
Mersey Docks and Harbour Co (now Peel Holdings) had an AEC TL mouldering away on Birkenhead docks for many years together with a Dennis RS and SS. They didn't move from the same spot until they were scrapped.
Great video! Lots of them appear to have lighting defects!
Back in the days when Dennis was king as the standard appliance
Absolutely brilliant,,, I bet they could still give those crappy mercs a run for their money.. thankyou for uploading
I was told by the fire crews they liked the AEC's as they had a good centre of gravity and they could sling them about on a shout. The Simon Snorkel's and other new appliances had a tendency to topple over! A few ended up in works to be rebuilt!
They don't need a laptop to tell them what's wrong with it
so many fireman were London cabbies back in the day. They had plenty of time to sit around ' calling over ' the knowledge runs. You can see the fireman with his cab in the driveway at the start. I think it was around 500 - 600 cabbies were also fireman.
This would of been that Dennis the fire engine guy favourite video
Redcar (Cleveland County FB) had one of these with the sliding door cab. My father was the last person to drive it for the brigade when he took it down to Dennis to have the ladder switch to Redcar's new Dennis TL (which he drive back).
Hartlepool also had one, it's in the yard for the station's postcard. It later went to Ireland, where it ended it days not long after going there.
My mate who had me out filming these went around the country to see others and even brought one from Sheffield i seem to recall! Plus a petrol engined Bedford TL from Greene King at Bury St Edmunds.
I wonder where these metal fire fighting giants are now.. would love to know (great compilation by the way)
Some AEC TL's are preserved but all those seen on here i believe were scrapped......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus thank you for telling me, I'm very sorry to hear what happened to the rest of the lot but im glad some examples of of these mechanical wonders are left in preservation
Ahhh.....The good old days but they were difficult to drive with a crash box.
Loved to see the rover police car in one of the clips
Yes, i find it interesting looking at the other traffic in my bus & fire brigade vids, some nice old motors to be seen.
Isn't it an Aec Merryweather turntable ladder?
Yep!
Keep up the good work on here mate how are u OK mate keep up the good work on here mate
Have no fears, i will!
Fantastic video!
Lovely to see these fine old ladies as they neared the end of their working lives. It's a shame they'd all lost their bells by then.
premier4 6 Back in the day the bells were fetching a lot of money.
john piper They still do. I'd like to know why LFB insisted on removing all bells from those appliances that still had them. Dennis F108s F109s F131s ERFs and the AEC all lost them.
premier4 6 I can only guess it was to prevent theft, also I wonder if it was an image issue. The bell went back to the start of time, was it how the brigade wanted to be seen. The AEC's were old by that time.
EYX248C is operating from G30 Wembley.
Well spotted, thank you. I have amended the description accordingly. We had even filmed the station name sign so should have known where it was filmed! It's been up for two years and you are the only one to spot it, well done!
Proper sirens not like the crap they use today more American
Don't you just love those MARTIN HORN TWO TONE SIRENS!
We put one on our SUICIDE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION SERVICES VEHICLE with a WHELEN AND OLD NYPD FEDERAL PULSATOR SIREN.
I have that i model form
No flashing lights on TL?
- how did they let them out without working blues?
The real deal....
They were classics back in 1986....now 30 years later even more so......
Now we are out of the EU maybe this siren will return back to our fire engines along with British built fire appliances, get rid of the Mercedes and Volvo ones that the eu has forced on us to have over the years!
SCHRANZ3040 Christ on a bicycle. Do you know nothing? There are NO british truck manufacturers anymore. They all went bust, one by one, because no-one would buy the crap they were making. Some of them were bought and rescued by other companies, all from other countries. Volvo Trucks (separate company to the car maker) bought Leyland trucks, and all its brands (just about every british brand, including AEC). They now make Volvo bus chassis. They stopped using any of the British brands very early on. The EU had nothing to do with this, except that we had to accept bids for public contracts from companies in any European country. It didn’t make much difference, as there were no British manufacturers by then except Dennis. And they’re too small to supply the market.
A siren is a siren. It’s not a national identity badge. It’s to clear the road. Modern sirens are better at that than two-tones. Unless you want to get French two-tones, but they’re deafening.
Anal retentive twits harking back to better days that only exist in your heads. No-one under 40 ish has ever heard a two-tone, except for the occasional one used as part of a modern siren’s range of tones.
In the end, what you need to realise is that NONE OF YOUR CONCERNS AND WISHES ABOUT TRIVIALITIES LIKE THIS ARE THE SLIGHTEST BIT IMPORTANT.
Kevin Twining , You sound like an ass, and have little experience with sirens, the two tone was superior to the modern wail / yelp sirens they are often too soft to be heard in the modern well insulated cars, even with my window open and looking at an emergency vehicle coming my way I could only hear it when it was about 50 m away. I have had many frustrating times driving behind vehicles that just could not hear you, something what didn’t happen with two tone air horns. And as for no one under 40 has heard a 2 tone, you haven’t been to Holland or Germany as they use exclusively 2 tone sirens and not the American crap.
@@Twittler1 you may want to look back and research before trying to belittle someone. They were called Leyland DAF, not Leyland Volvo, so explain how they merged with Volvo
@@johnnz4375 26 year old here, 2 tone horns still used here in Wales, although in the last 10 years moved to electric based
Rhys Thomas Yes, they were Leyland-Daf, as a result of an earlier merger under the DAF umbrella. DAF were already 100% owned by Volvo, which was eventually split into two separate companies, the truck and bus company, and the car company (now owned by Geely of China after a spell of ownership by Ford).
The truck company reorganised itself, leaving two truck brands, Volvo and DAF; the British (Leyland) truck plants were shut down, the only survivor being the bus chassis operation which was renamed Volvo Bus and Coach.
That’s how.