Hi Guys,
Sorry this is a couple of months out of date, but during the summer months I try and get out buffing and photographing as much as possible.
Anyway, in April this year a few buddies and I flew over to the Netherlands to spend four days travelling around shooting apparatus. Two of the days were pre-arranged by The Fire Brigade Society - a UK-based buffing club which I belong to, the other days were a mixture of knocking on doors and as a result of a making emails prior to travel.
We flew out from the UK on the Thursday evening and after the most hair-raising landing of my life (gale force winds were battering Amsterdam at the time), we landed at Schiphol Airport. Fortunately we had found a hotel near the airport which just happened to have a fire station next to it - that's a coincidence hey!
The Fire Brigade in the Netherlands is run at municipal level but controlled at a regional level, so although they have a national livery for all fire vehicles, each brigade has completely different chassis and bodybuilders.
Hoofddorp was a huge station and I had previously emailed them to arrange a visit, the guys here were fantastic and very helpful (as with every single station we visited).
First up, a Mercedes Atego pump (engine) - they are known as 'tankautospuits' in Holland.
Sorry this is a couple of months out of date, but during the summer months I try and get out buffing and photographing as much as possible.
Anyway, in April this year a few buddies and I flew over to the Netherlands to spend four days travelling around shooting apparatus. Two of the days were pre-arranged by The Fire Brigade Society - a UK-based buffing club which I belong to, the other days were a mixture of knocking on doors and as a result of a making emails prior to travel.
We flew out from the UK on the Thursday evening and after the most hair-raising landing of my life (gale force winds were battering Amsterdam at the time), we landed at Schiphol Airport. Fortunately we had found a hotel near the airport which just happened to have a fire station next to it - that's a coincidence hey!
The Fire Brigade in the Netherlands is run at municipal level but controlled at a regional level, so although they have a national livery for all fire vehicles, each brigade has completely different chassis and bodybuilders.
Hoofddorp was a huge station and I had previously emailed them to arrange a visit, the guys here were fantastic and very helpful (as with every single station we visited).
First up, a Mercedes Atego pump (engine) - they are known as 'tankautospuits' in Holland.
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