• A week after its FL6 water tender model successfully
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completed performance testing for the Fire Brigade, (CM 16-22 July), Volvo Trucks (Great Britain) has supplied an FL6-16 turntable appliance to North Yorkshire Fire Brigade.
The 154kw FL6 has been fitted with a Metz 30 turntable ladder body, supplied by Anglo of Batley, West Yorkshire. A second chassis is also on order as part of a vehicle replacement programme.
These FL6 chassis will be followed by three more FL6-14 chassis with water tender bodies built by Carmichaels of Worcester.
Volvo reports that for fire appliance operations it can now supply its 14-tonne GVW FL6-14 rigid chassis fitted with the 154kW (206hp) turbocharged, and charge-cooled, engine normally fitted in the 16tonne GVW FI6-16 rigid, in place of the FL6-14's normal 134kW (180hp) turbocharged engine.