A 1960 Land Rover 109 fire truck of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, with firefighting equipment by Firefly of London — curved body sides and an exposed rear pump — that protected the camps and works of Australia's largest engineering scheme, preserved and shown at Eastern Creek in 2008.
BASE VEHICLESeries II 88″CONVERTERAngus Fire ArmourIN SERVICE1960OPERATED INAustraliaPRODUCTIONUnknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 88″
The record
The Snowy Mountains Scheme was a quarter-century of dams, tunnels and power stations in the Australian Alps, built by a workforce of tens of thousands living in construction towns far from any municipal brigade. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority ran its own fire service, and this Series II Land Rover was one of its appliances.
The firefighting equipment was supplied by Firefly of London, whose light-appliance conversions gave the Land Rover curved body sides in place of the flat pickup panels, with the pump exposed at the rear for quick access. The base is a 1960 long-wheelbase Series II with the 2.25-litre petrol four. It survives in preservation and was photographed by sv1ambo at Shannons Eastern Creek Classic at Eastern Creek Raceway, Sydney, in August 2008.
ENGINE2.25 L petrol inline-four (Series II standard; not stated in the source)
PRODUCTION RUNUnknown — one vehicle documented
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INAustralia
STATUSpreserved
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries II
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE88″
CATEGORYSpecial · Fire
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
Eastern Creek, 24 August 2008. Reference only; generated model is an interpretation.sv1ambo · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Where it was
AU Australia1960–1975 · Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
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