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Description: | Rapid Intervention Vehicle, Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Sunderland Central Fire Station, 25 March 1989. This vehicle was introduced in the late 1980s as a means of getting rescue equipment to the scene of an accident quickly. It replaced a larger more cumbersome lorry van style vehicle. It was also used for towing the fireboat Vedra to the river when required. It was built by the General Motors Company of the United States and fitted out by Locomotors Ltd. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East emergency services | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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