Cultra Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

Many four wheel drives get converted into fire engines (fire tenders). The power take off(s) can be used to drive pumps, the strong chassis makes it easy to add specialised bodywork, and four wheel drive lets the unit cross rough ground to reach a fire.

This one is in a sense a double conversion - firstly it is a foward control or cab-over conversion of a bonneted series 3 Land Rover, and secondly it is a fire engine. It is registered in Northern Ireland (Ulster)

Land Rover themselves have had various tries at building a general purpose forward control four wheel drive with very mixed success - the SIIA/SIIB, the military FC101, the Llama prototypes and other prototypes. Jeep also tried the concept. Steyr Daimler Puch have perhaps been most successful with it.

Pictures - Tony Luckwill LROEC