Quote Originally Posted by Frosty5 View Post
The Ranchwagon - just a good old trusty Ford. From my days as a flaggie at Puke the trailer definitely looks like the fire tender. The large white sphere is a pressureised dry powder tank and the circular apparatus at the rear is the hose reel.
This arrangement was superceded with either an International or Dodge pickup cab and chassis. I also brought out one of the fire trucks when with the NZ Fire Service at Papatoetoe. Usually at the hairpin. Took a bit of convincing the CFO but we got there. The TK Bedford was a handful negotiating Railway corner and the hairpin at speed (50kph) particularly with 300 gallons of water sloshing around in the on-board tank.