We had two of those Ford Ds at my local station when I was a kid. Ours never had bells though. But I do remember ours took forever to start up too! And the sound of those heavenly two-tone horns takes me right back.
I love these old films. I remember just about everything we rode and used in the 70's was British. Bedford, ERF, Ford, Leyland, AEC, Dennis, HCB Angus, Shelvoke and Drury, Carmichael, Simon Snorkel, Commer, Merryweather. One station I was on had a Bedford HCB-Angus WrL with a 4.2 litre Jaguar petrol engine. Now it's all Volvo, Mann. Mercedes and Scania.
@@koolyman dont know but now automatic transmissions are in large cars and trucks mainly where auto is the only option but you can get most cars in manual and auto
Considering the year this was filmed, how did those Fire Tenders get their Brakes off so quickly?, my old man used to run Ford D series Trucks in the 70’s and building the Air up could take 10minutes on a cold day.
@@crusinclassicslucas6218 Considering that Guildford in Surrey was the home of Dennis , it’s Ironic that Fords and Dodges were being favoured by the Surrey brigade in the first place- you’d think they’d prefer the local manufacturer rather than deploying US badged british trucks. (Mind you Dennis went bust in 2007, so Surrey Fire Brigade use Scanias now)
Bloody hell I thought I was seeing things at first! Firefighters actually in a hurry to turn out rather than strolling and (much worse) swaggering about without a care in the world. Or was the film sped up?
YelpBullhorn, no you wasn't seeing things, them were the days when firemen were firemen 60secs too turn out put your gear on as the machine was on the way. As you say today they take for ages to turnout
Takes me back to being a boy in the 60s in bed at night woken up by the sound of the two tone sirens on fire engines even at 2 in the morning ..I would look out of the bedroom window and watch the engine roar past ..Coventry fire Brigade
Great clip. Reminded me very much of being a lad. There was several retained firefighters that lived near me. You could tell when they got a call as they used to race off down the road in their cars, engines racing and tyres squealing. Sometimes me and my friend would jump on our bikes and pedal like mad the mile-and-a-bit to the station to catch them turning out. Over the years the fire engines were Bedford TKs, Ford Ds (like the first-away above), and then Dennis RSs. I stopped chasing them by the time they became Sabres and Scanias. Well, on my push bike anyway!
I was 5 when my dad joined back in 1983 and me and my older brother used to follow him down the station on a shout and lock up after they had gone great days them now I'm in myself and occasionally he returns the favour
Us old hands remember how things were ,no radio ,fire flash call by G, P,O ,phone ,nuck early warning ,1 min to turn out times ,no sea belts ,only 2 b,a sets ,& loved the job
@@jamesfrench7299As a fellow Aussie (not born and raised in the 70s), I am aware that the NSW Fire Brigades did use Ford D’s around 1974, but they were the smaller D200’s (unlike the larger D600 as seen in the vid). Plus they probably wouldn’t have been seen in metropolitan Sydney too often as the FB used the D200s for retained stations in the regional/country towns.
That’s odd why dose it have a bell on top of the fire engine if it has a siren sort of like fireman sams classic fire engine I know some fire engines had bells and sirens but they were mostly old Dennises
Every station had a bell like that, they were phased out and replaced by sounders under good old health and safety, as they deemed bells were too harsh on the ears.
Ruairi Donnelly bells were retained in rural locations until the late 1980s (and possibly later) as they were considered to be less frightening to livestock.
Guildford had a third pump which was retained. Half the crew worked at the Dennis Factory. In 1989-1990, the brigade bought a fleet of Mercs to the consternation of Dennis, who allegedly threatened to stop letting the crew attend from work as a result.
UKWMO carrier reciver set wb400 on shelf next to PA Microphone 0:14 designed to warn of a nuclear attack there were probably air raid sirens on this fire station that needed to be sounded as soon as the message ATTACK WARNING RED came through followed by a wailing tone.
When I first joined the fire service there was one of the early warning devices in the watchroom at Slough. It went off one night, I told my Sub officer who said just ignore it....... hence to say false alarm but I nearly died of a heart attack hearing it.....
@@billlin2659 I remember Humberside having a similar ARV in the early 1990s based at Goole, which is just off the M62. It was a white, Range Rover Carmichael, with the extendable floodlights on the roof. Regularly saw it shooting past my school heading to a smash on the motorway. Beautifully built vehicle.
No, probably a command unit, BA Tender, anything that's non firefighting. Fire Services in the UK cannot have ambulances, as that's the job of the Ambulance Services. But they can have medically trained members in their ranks, similar to American Fire Departments.
Who doesn't love them old two tones 😍
I think they should be brought back.
@@thomasmellard304 I'd love to see a modern appliance with two tones
@@PaulieMac77 I have heard the on fire appliances the horns are under the bonnet so to speak.
@@thomasmellard304 They're still fitted to a lot of modern vehicles, but they rarely use them th-cam.com/video/j7mEgXOW0Bg/w-d-xo.html
@@thomasmellard304 theres still 2 tones
We had two of those Ford Ds at my local station when I was a kid. Ours never had bells though. But I do remember ours took forever to start up too! And the sound of those heavenly two-tone horns takes me right back.
Those two tone horns take me back to better days....better days by far, and my youth.
I'm here for the sirens.
same.
Back in the day they were known as Two toned horns, all fire trucks still have them. But they rather use the yelp's and whaylers.
Me too. Even though I'm in the U.S. hearing those and yelp and wailers still give me a start. Love 'em!
Me also, I preferred the 1970s sirens
..cant beat the old British blues & twos 👍
Love the Two Tones.
SO 🗃
Doesn't get more English than that, a Bedford with 2 tones...What fabulous footage
Doesn't get any more british if they take that long to start.
mortgagewizard40 was the third vehicle a Bedford? I thought it looked more like a Dodge K series.
@@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 not sure, 2nd away was a bedford i believe
First out, Ford Transit ( easy to spot), second Ford D series, third Dodge K series.
Cool One! I miss these Old fire appliances from the UK including the old two tones
I love these old films. I remember just about everything we rode and used in the 70's was British. Bedford, ERF, Ford, Leyland, AEC, Dennis, HCB Angus, Shelvoke and Drury, Carmichael, Simon Snorkel, Commer, Merryweather. One station I was on had a Bedford HCB-Angus WrL with a 4.2 litre Jaguar petrol engine.
Now it's all Volvo, Mann. Mercedes and Scania.
I have seen a dodge fire truck in another video
Do you know when abouts they switched over to automatic transmissions?
@@koolyman dont know but now automatic transmissions are in large cars and trucks mainly where auto is the only option but you can get most cars in manual and auto
@@thepurdychannel8866 To me it looks like auto transmissions have been used in Fire Engines for about 30 - 40 years
@@koolyman its to make it easier for the driver
1:03 them 2 tones
At one point I'd thought they'd all ran to the trucks, got in, shut the doors then forgot to open the garage doors.
Gosh they took ages to start!
Considering the year this was filmed, how did those Fire Tenders get their Brakes off so quickly?, my old man used to run Ford D series Trucks in the 70’s and building the Air up could take 10minutes on a cold day.
Love the Ford D Series pump
The Tones was a Dennis Fire Track. Hong Kong had been used before.
..Blues & Twos
The fire engines are not Dennis it’s ford and dodge
@@crusinclassicslucas6218 Considering that Guildford in Surrey was the home of Dennis , it’s Ironic that Fords and Dodges were being favoured by the Surrey brigade in the first place- you’d think they’d prefer the local manufacturer rather than deploying US badged british trucks. (Mind you Dennis went bust in 2007, so Surrey Fire Brigade use Scanias now)
Bloody hell I thought I was seeing things at first! Firefighters actually in a hurry to turn out rather than strolling and (much worse) swaggering about without a care in the world. Or was the film sped up?
YelpBullhorn, no you wasn't seeing things, them were the days when firemen were firemen 60secs too turn out put your gear on as the machine was on the way. As you say today they take for ages to turnout
Not allowed to hurry now though are they? In case one of them slips and gets a poorly woorly ankle.
@@YelpBullhorn your not far wrong
Takes me back to being a boy in the 60s in bed at night woken up by the sound of the two tone sirens on fire engines even at 2 in the morning ..I would look out of the bedroom window and watch the engine roar past ..Coventry fire Brigade
Any chance we could get the full episode if it's still in archive anywhere please?
Great clip. Reminded me very much of being a lad. There was several retained firefighters that lived near me. You could tell when they got a call as they used to race off down the road in their cars, engines racing and tyres squealing. Sometimes me and my friend would jump on our bikes and pedal like mad the mile-and-a-bit to the station to catch them turning out. Over the years the fire engines were Bedford TKs, Ford Ds (like the first-away above), and then Dennis RSs. I stopped chasing them by the time they became Sabres and Scanias. Well, on my push bike anyway!
I was 5 when my dad joined back in 1983 and me and my older brother used to follow him down the station on a shout and lock up after they had gone great days them now I'm in myself and occasionally he returns the favour
Us old hands remember how things were ,no radio ,fire flash call by G, P,O ,phone ,nuck early warning ,1 min to turn out times ,no sea belts ,only 2 b,a sets ,& loved the job
SO ✏
now that's how a rapid turnout should be
Those were the days..
you can go if you can start you vehicle :D
@Dr Wolfgang Chausser Come on ye bastard... Fkn start!!
That's what happens when you forget to pull the choke out 😂
@@Charlzey1998 Yes lol. Especially on a 70s TR6
The white Ford Transit looks like ambulance
And on tonight's thrilling episode of London's burning!!!!!!
Week days on drama sky Chan 143 14:20 I got it on series link ;)
Or today's episode of Fireman Sam
Proper turn out how it used to be. There doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency anymore.
The fire suppression in modern architecture is pretty good
Are those Dennis fire engines?
..no, Ford and a Dodge..but cant beat a Dennis
Thames intro made me think I opened an episode of the BILL haha
Love it
That was awesome !!! Brings me joy !!
Did one or all of them seriously take long to start?
They don’t move as quick as that now
That’s because they carry more water now and the water weighs them down
Also the amount of equipment carried on the pumps has increased.
Looks like 1974 or thereabouts. Never seen a Ford D series as a fire truck. I have a lot of memories seeing them here in Sydney.
I seem to remember Greater Manchester using them, and there were definitely a couple at The Fire Service College in 80s.
David Ellis they were a good selling truckc so why not as a fire tender!!
They were loads of Ford D's fire engines up and down the UK
@@jamesfrench7299As a fellow Aussie (not born and raised in the 70s), I am aware that the NSW Fire Brigades did use Ford D’s around 1974, but they were the smaller D200’s (unlike the larger D600 as seen in the vid). Plus they probably wouldn’t have been seen in metropolitan Sydney too often as the FB used the D200s for retained stations in the regional/country towns.
That’s odd why dose it have a bell on top of the fire engine if it has a siren sort of like fireman sams classic fire engine I know some fire engines had bells and sirens but they were mostly old Dennises
It was from season 1
@@crusinclassicslucas6218 yeah I still remember it
It's because two tone horns weren't compulsory until 1969, before then they used the bell
Lovely 😍 👌 👍 when I little boy Lovely seeing them
Fireman Sam in real life
Brilliant 😎😎
Very nice!
1:00 That sirens very scary.
Did all brigades in Britain use that bell at one point? The London Fire Brigade I know used a similar sounding one
Yes they would have done.
Every station had a bell like that, they were phased out and replaced by sounders under good old health and safety, as they deemed bells were too harsh on the ears.
Ruairi Donnelly bells were retained in rural locations until the late 1980s (and possibly later) as they were considered to be less frightening to livestock.
Some stations in Warwickshire still use ringing bells :)
i came here because apparently the original fireman sam theme is sung to the sound of fire engine siren
Ironic that back then the Surrey Fire Brigade (as was) didn't use Dennis fire appliances.
Why so?
@@thetelegothika5327 The Dennis Commercial Vehicles factory was in Guildford.
Guildford had a third pump which was retained. Half the crew worked at the Dennis Factory. In 1989-1990, the brigade bought a fleet of Mercs to the consternation of Dennis, who allegedly threatened to stop letting the crew attend from work as a result.
*Playback speed: 0.5x from classic french fire truck*
Yeah, for some reason, the French fire services uses that siren, but slowed down.
DFB has an ambulance section
looked an ice cream van coming out of the appliance bay there
..might have been, used after they've put the fire out lol
Now who needs the fire service
All present and correct sir!
Right, Lets go!
That Transit probably had an ESSEX V6 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
what programme was this from?
Seeing and Doing, a ITV schools program for primary school pupils started in 60's & still going in the 80's.
Remember them sounding like that
What year?
This is a pretty cool video
Is this Guildord fires station?
Reigate
@@mickshield5793 Thanks
@@mickshield5793 Its great footage
UKWMO carrier reciver set wb400 on shelf next to PA Microphone 0:14 designed to warn of a nuclear attack there were probably air raid sirens on this fire station that needed to be sounded as soon as the message ATTACK WARNING RED came through followed by a wailing tone.
When I first joined the fire service there was one of the early warning devices in the watchroom at Slough. It went off one night, I told my Sub officer who said just ignore it....... hence to say false alarm but I nearly died of a heart attack hearing it.....
Well spotted
Nice video!
Can you see the 🚒 and the 🚑 responding to an Emergency somewhere?
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1:03 *ITS JUPITER* I can't Unsee Fireman Sam Inside
Anyone know what the white vehicle that left first was?
Ambulance? Control vehicle?
Elliott Rodgers Ambulance probably.
Would be an early rescue vehicle as it’s got lighting on the roof and a fire service call sign
I have just asked my father - a former Surrey Fire Brigade fireman at the time this was filmed. It is a control unit.
@@timbritt-searle135 Not a control unit (looks similar) but an ARV, accident rescue vehicle. call sign 105.
@@billlin2659
I remember Humberside having a similar ARV in the early 1990s based at Goole, which is just off the M62.
It was a white, Range Rover Carmichael, with the extendable floodlights on the roof.
Regularly saw it shooting past my school heading to a smash on the motorway.
Beautifully built vehicle.
Good morning
Fireman sammy :)
Do we know what the shout was?
1:02 is that an ambulance?
No, probably a command unit, BA Tender, anything that's non firefighting. Fire Services in the UK cannot have ambulances, as that's the job of the Ambulance Services. But they can have medically trained members in their ranks, similar to American Fire Departments.
Well, it does look like an ambulance
Amazing how fast they turned out today they pack flask and sandwiches and toss coins whose going to drive
Reigate,Surrey
Did ambulances used to be docked at fire stations?
Used to yeah
@@sebby324 Cool. I think they are again now. Or at least they are at my local fire station.
It's an ARV apparently, Accident Rescue Vehicle
One by one alarm
WHAT STATION IS IT?
It’s the Surrey fire brigade
Its reigate fire station, attached to SFB HQ
Is this in Surrey Canada?
Surrey County Fire Brigade, UK.
They dont look or sound anything remotely like Canadian fire engines lol
Fireman Sam
Is it a tv show
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Ford d series and a dodge
They dressed like fireman sam the old version wow
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