Emergency tender for Copt Hewick

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Here is the latest addition to Copt Hewick Volunteer Fire Brigade - an emergency tender (ET in UK terminology, an RW in German temrinology).  As usual, it's based on the 3880 Mercedes Benz chassis and cab and carries a range of equipment for use at road traffic accidents (RTAs) and other incidents where lifting, cutting or spreading equipment is needed.  It carries a crew of two and always turns out with another pumping appliance.  The latter provides firefighting capability if it's needed and additional crew (a pumping appliance will turn out with a minimum of 4 crew, ideally 5).  All the specialist equipment has been made for me by Tim_w and I will show more of this in separate threads.

The right side locker carries stabilising equipment in the form of chocks and hand operated pneumatic operated jacks.  The jacks can also be operated by the compressor if extra heavy lifting is required.

So here are the first photos.

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Now some rear views.  Because it will often be used on a motorway there is additional high visibility striping on the rear doors, inside and out. There is also built-in floodlighting on each side and at the rear, in addition to the standard three light extendable stemlight for more general lighting of the scene of an incident.

The rather crowded rear section carries cutting and spreading equipment and a compressor for powering these items.  In addition, there is a fuel can (for the compressor) and a first aid box.

Under the main equipment tray there is a slide out tray which holds the air lines for the compressor.  The compressor and rescue equipment are on their own separate slide out tray.

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The left hand locker contains two equipment drawers.  The top one holds safety equipment (high visibility, heavy-duty work guantlets and face masks and a handlamp) and the lower one small hand tools.  The fourth photo shows the layout of stowage on the top of the vehicle.

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The large metal locker on the roof holds an airbag, spreader/protective plates for it and two hand saws. Below the two, short, connectable ladders (really designed more for access to awkward sites than rescue, the ladders on the accompanying pumping appliance will be used usually for rescue purposes) other equipment is stored in the shape of tools for scene safety and breaking and entering.  The white sack contains oil spill granules used for soaking up oil and other spillages so these can be swept up or in some other way neutralised.  The tarpaulin is used for privacy when extricating trapped persons from vehicles.

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Thanks for your time in looking at this thread.  I will post the details on the specialist equipment later this week.  Fiona, the Fire Prevention Officer who you saw with the new staff car (here's a link if you haven't seen it:

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=1579.0) has offered where possible to act as Press Officer at incidents when she can, so we should see some photos of the new ET in action or being used for training in the near future.

[Little Jo]

Again a masterpiece and as always a very well equiped verhicle. 
Very clever the usage of the trowel for the drawer handle and the connectors to fix the ladders and the spreader tool. And also very cool the slide-out tray. I also like the spot on the back of the vehicle; should keep this in mind.

Congrats Gordon and Tim_w!

[Tim_w]

Excellent work as allways Gordon. Thank you very much for taking the time to share it with us. I am allways amazed at how you manage to fit so much equipment into such small spaces. I can see just by looking at the range of gear on display you have enough to deal with most 'Accidents' that are likely to occur.
I would also like to thank you for the mention , it really is a pleasure to be able to share my creations with others, besides you have helped me out a great deal and have been really kind to me . I apologise for being 'lax' lately in the creations department, i have been promising you some parts for a while now but have had quite a bit of creative block lately. The roof's are all most done but i hadn't realised how labour intensive the first actually was !! All the other parts are complete but were being held back to send with the roof's . I will get the little bits and pieces sent off to you this weekend, the roof's will follow shortly, sorry again for the delay.

Tim 

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Again a masterpiece and as always a very well equiped verhicle. 
Very clever the usage of the trowel for the drawer handle and the connectors to fix the ladders and the spreader tool. And also very cool the slide-out tray. I also like the spot on the back of the vehicle; should keep this in mind.

Congrats Gordon and Tim_w!

Thank you, Jochen, for your kind comments.

The spot lights are held on by screw and glue.  I first removed the white markings around the site for the spot light and then drilled small hole in the middle of the spot light bracket before cutting off the clips on the bracket.  (Leaving the clips on before drilling helps get the centre more easily.)  Then I put a bit of masking tape on the fire engine where the spot light was to go and marked on the tape where to drill (drilling through the masking tape helps prevent the drill bit slipping when you first start to drill, as I'm sure you know) and then drilled the body.  I used 5 minute two pack epoxy glue, screwed the bracket firmly in place once the glue was on the bracket and then cleaned round the bracket with a cotton wool bud with a bit of liquid soap on it.  (The liquid soap stops the glue setting properly so any glue which oozed out as the bracket was screwed in place can be wiped off afterwards with a damp cloth or easily peeled off with the fingers.)  And "hey presto!".

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I apologise for being 'lax' lately in the creations department, i have been promising you some parts for a while now but have had quite a bit of creative block lately. The roof's are all most done but i hadn't realised how labour intensive the first actually was !! All the other parts are complete but were being held back to send with the roof's . I will get the little bits and pieces sent off to you this weekend, the roof's will follow shortly, sorry again for the delay.

Tim 

No problem, Tim.  I've plenty of things to keep me busy so PM is going to be on gthe back burner for a while, so when you're ready.