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Shand Mason and Co. was originally founded in 1774 by James Philips and Samuel Hopwood in England as a company dedicated to the creation...

ALF Pumper, 1942 (SAFB Fleet Number 59) Historic Fire Engine No 0018 (originally HFEAA) The LaFrance Manufacturing Company was...

An Insight into the Museum’s 1940 Diamond-T Pumper The Chicago-based Diamond-T Motor Car Company was established by founder C. A. Tilt in...

What’s in a name? Well, quite a bit if you’re known as the ‘flying pig’... The Ace chassis was first manufactured in 1933 by the vehicle...

Did you know? The Women’s Fire Auxiliary (WFA), established in the 1940s, was primarily formed to aid the NSW Fire Brigade on the home...

Prior to the advent of the modern motorised appliances used by Fire and Rescue NSW today (FRNSW), brigades responded to fire calls with...

The first thing visitors to the Fire and Rescue NSW Emergency Services Academy at Orchard Hills see upon arrival is a Garford Hale Type...

The 1938 Leyland FT3 “Lioness” pumper is one of the rarer motor appliances in the Museum’s vehicle collection. Although Leyland Motors...

The Dennis “Big 4” was named according to its engine size, designed with a 4-cylinder overhead valve engine with a RAC horsepower rating...