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YJ14 KFX Manchester Airport Rescue & Firefighting Service Oshkosh St..
YJ14 KFX
Manchester Airport Rescue & Firefighting Service
Oshkosh Striker
Fire 6. It has a top speed in excess of 70 mph and can accelerate from 0-50 mph in under 35 seconds. Compared to a car this is slow, but it weighs 46 tons and is over 13m long. It has a 700 bhp engine and carries 12,000 litres of water and a further 1,700 litres of foam.
GAR 638T Hertfordshire Constabulary Ford Cortina 1.6 L
GAR 638T
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Ford Cortina 1.6 L
This model Cortina shows what was in use in Herts in the late 1970s. All five generations of Cortina gave sterling service to many Police forces during the model’s twenty year production life, which ended in 1982. The car modelled was used as a Divisional Area Car and was based at Hitchin Police Station. In common with other Hertfordshire Constabulary vehicles it carried dual roof mounted spotlights as well as the equipment required to deal with a variety of emergency situations. All the constabulary’s Divisional Area Cars were ordered in blue to distinguish them from the force’s traffic patrol units, which were white.
L581 GVT Staffordshire Police Jaguar XJ6 PS
L581 GVT
Staffordshire Police
Jaguar XJ6 PS
The ‘Police Special’ version of Jaguar’s 4.0 litre XJ6 model. The car joined Staffs Police from new in 1993. It later moved to be used by the driving training unit before moving to front-line duties as a traffic car. The rear seats were taken out when it was used as a traffic car as the boot was not big enough to accommodate the kit that was carried. The seats were later reinstated so the vehicle could be used to carry detainees. It was the first video car on the central traffic group. It definitely had rear seats but also had a VHS video recorder in the boot as it was in the early days of video cars. The car has been in preservation since 2003.
M751 CVC Metropolitan Police Service Land Rover Range Rover Vogue
M751 CVC
Metropolitan Police Service
Land Rover Range Rover Vogue
This vehicle was new in 1994 when it was part of Land Rover’s police demonstrator fleet. After being passed around a number of forces, it found a permanent home withy the Met Police in 1997 as part of the Special Escort Group. Its most famous moment was escorting Princess Diana’s funeral cortege in 1997. It left police service in 2002.