Fire service historian and author
This 2002 Volvo FM7 / John Dennis Coachbuilders / HIAB 112 multi-role vehicle, HX51
EPD, was due to fitted with removable hose coffins to provide the primary hose-laying
facility in the brigade.
On the run at Bognor Regis is this 1998 Mercedes-Benz 2524 / John Dennis Coachbuilders
operational support unit, P825 JPO. It carries a Moffett Mounty fork lift truck at
the rear to facilitate the loading and unloading of palletised equipment. The hose
layer at Horley is to be converted to a similar appliance.
M477 XCR is one of the brigade’s three Iveco-Ford Super Cargo 170E23 / Leicester
Carriage Co breathing apparatus support units, a 1995 appliance stationed at Horsham.
