A new rescue vehicle is now in service with several British fire brigades for crash and other emergency rescues. Firemen are shown here using a power hacksaw, one of the many items of equipment carried in the vehicle, which was designed and built by the Reynolds Boughton Group. The RB 44 vehicle can travel at more than 110 kilometres an hour when fully laden. It is powered by a 3.5 litre Rover engine and has an automatic gearbox coupled to four-wheel drive, enabling it to operate over rough terrain. ' . ... The vehicle has a large amount of storage space and, in addition to such
necessary items as spanners, hand saws, and wrenches, it, also has a heavy duty air compressor to drive the power tools; high-power cutting and spreading tools for releasing victims; lifting bags capable of raising weights up to 70 tonnes; generator-powered floodlights; and two portable winches. The vehicle pictured here is in service with the Somerset County Fire; Brigade in south-west Britain, and already has proved its worth in an air crash, in rescuing people trapped in a factory fire, and at- a railway accident. Photograph by London Pictures Service
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Press, 13 December 1985, Page 16
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