Emergency Vehicles

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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 11 items associated with emergency vehicles. These date from 1860 to 1992. This collection consists of motorised fire engines and a trailer pump, horse-drawn fire engines, hand-pulled pumps, a Bedford ambulance and an armoured Rover 827Si, which was used by Strathclyde Police Armed Response Unit. The hand-pulled and horse-drawn fire engines date from the 19th century, and include a Shand-Mason manual engine from about 1880 and a Herkless manual engine from about 1860. Fire engines from the 20th century are represented by three motorised engines. These are a pump ladder Albion Merryweather from about 1928, a turntable ladder Dennis-Merryweather and a trailer pump Coventry Climax, both from about 1940, and a pump escape Leyland Firemaster from about 1960. Each of the vehicles has a range of associated pieces of equipment such as ladders, hose reels, branches, couplings and adaptors. The remainder of this collection consists of a corridor pump of about 1875, helmets, fire grenades, extinguishers, uniform buttons, epaulettes, belts, medals, engineering models, firemarks, fire alarms, fire drums, clappers and rattles, tokens, photographs and artworks.

Broader term

Road Transport

Narrower term

Ambulance Uniforms

Ambulance and Equipment

Police Vehicles