HCB-Angus - Fire Engine Builders

Fire service historian and author

Roger Mardon

www.romar.org.uk

HCB-Angus produced 6,500 fire engines for fire services from across the UK and all over the world at their Southampton factory. The author discusses the history of the company and its forebears from their first involvement with building fire engines in 1933 until the completion of the last orders before closure on 24 June 1994.

Aidan Fisher has had exclusive access to the preserved archive of company photographs, technical papers and brochures and has used these to produce this complete account of the company and its products.

An order form will be included for the purchase of other HCB-Angus publications by the author, including a database of fire appliance production 1948-1993 on CD-ROM.

Published 2012, soft cover, 128 pages, over 150 black & white illustrations and 32 colour photographs

ISBN 978-1-4456-0535-7

First published 2012

Amberley Publishing

Cover price £14.99 ... ONLY £13.50

HCB-ANGUS - FIRE ENGINE BUILDERS #030

by Aidan Fisher

Chapter 1 - The Company History
Chapter 2 - Vehicle Production
Chapter 3 - Commercial Vehicle Bodybuilding
Chapter 4 - The Early Days and into the 1950s
Chapter 5 - The 1960s
Chapter 6 - The 1970s
Chapter 7 - The 1980s
Chapter 8 - The 1990s – Final Years

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