LCC-LFB Dennis open pump escape at a fire station

Readying for the outbreak of WW2, a regular London pump-escape pictured with the wartime fire appliances which would greatly outnumber the pre-1938 London appliance fleet. The red engines would soon be repainted in their wartime livery of Battleship Grey, remaining that colour until 1948, after the National Fire Service was disbanded and fire brigades returned to local authority control

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