NAMED MODELSpecial · FireSpecial · RescueUnited Kingdom
East Sussex Haywards Heath Light Rescue Tender.
Land Rover UPM 349H of East Sussex Fire Brigade, a 1970 Series IIA 109 with HCB-Angus bodywork, sister to the Uckfield L4P UPM 350H, stationed at Haywards Heath as a light rescue tender and in later life converted into a lighting unit based at brigade headquarters in Lewes.
BASE VEHICLESeries II 109″CONVERTERHCB-AngusIN SERVICE1969–70OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 109″
The record
East Sussex Fire Brigade took two HCB-Angus-bodied Series IIA 109 Land Rovers in 1970: UPM 350H, an L4P light pump for Uckfield and later Crowborough, and its sister UPM 349H, built as a light rescue tender and stationed at Haywards Heath to carry cutting and lifting gear to road accidents on the A23 and A272. In later life 349H was converted into a lighting unit, its roof floodlights serving night incidents from brigade headquarters at Lewes. The fire-engine-photos.com commentary and a contributor's snowy photograph of UPM 349H outside its station record the pair.
The registry's model is a Series IIA 109 hard top in red with locker doors in the body sides, two roof floodlights and a dome beacon, red wheels and UPM 349H plates; in the game it carries water-pool pickups and the blue-light boost.
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Imagery
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Where it was
GB United Kingdom1970–1990 · East Sussex Fire Brigade
