Historic fleet (Fire collection)

Purpose built for London Fire Brigade as a command and control unit. This vehicle has seen fame on the 'London's Burning' TV program and has been fully restored to its former glory.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

Originally served with Derbyshire Fire & Rescue and was purchased by the museum to form part of its outreach fleet for use at Schools.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

Originally purchased for the RAF and then later for St Mary's Airport in the Scilly Isles.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

Originally stationed at Gosport fire station under Hampshire Fire Brigade.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

Purpose built onsite works fire engine for Eggborough Power Station.

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This vehicle is currently in storage and undergoing resturation.

This Austin K4 was part of a batch of mass produced vehicles for the NFS (National Fire Service) and served in Scotland for many years after the war.

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This vehicle is currently in off-site store.

This small but loud car is made mainly of compressed cardboard and cotton, Kindly on loan to the museum from Cleveland Fire and Rescue.

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum.

This tanker was used originally at a power station as a foam tanker in case of fire onsite. Towards the end of its working life is served with Wessex Fire and Rescue as a water tanker until it was kindly donated to the museum.

This Austin K2 ATV (Axillary Towing Vehicle) was used by the NFS (National Fire Service) in Oxford. This vehicle is currently in off-sire store.

Originally served with the AFS (auxiliary fire service) currently on loan to the Ambulance Heritage Society.

Served with the London Fire Brigade as a Turntable Ladder. This vehicle is currently undergoing some restoration works and is currently in off-site store.

Originally served with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue. Currently in off-site store.

Purpose build for the Rover Factory in Birmingham, this vehicle was one of the earliest fire engines to be built with an enclosed cab. 

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

The Green Goddes is propebly best knowen as the slow, sluggish fire engines that were used by the Army. These vehicles were part of the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) and were origional created to cope with the threat of nuclear war.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

Operated by the Salvation Army and origionally part of London Fire Brigade. This vehicle attended the London Bombings in 2005 and later served with Cheshire fire and rescue and Greater Manchester fire and rescue where it attended the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 befoe being retired and donated to the museum.

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This vehicle is currently located at the museums off-site store and not on public display.

Purpose built onsite works fire engine for Corus steel, Rotherham.

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This vehicle is currently in storage and undergoing resturation.

Originally built for Barnsley Fire Brigade and used during the Sheffield Blitz. This is the last surviving fire engine to have served in the Sheffield Blitz.

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum.

This forward control Landrover was purchased for the British Army Fire Service and served in Germany.

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum.

Originally served with Stockport Fire Brigade, this is one of the earlies fire engines to have pneumatic tyres.

These early moterised fire engines would have taken a long time to warm up before the firefighting pump would work.

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum and kindly on loan.

Currently in off-site store 

This Austin K2 ATV (Axillary Towing Vehicle) was used by the NFS (National Fire Service) in Scottland. This vehicle is currently on display in our Blitz exhibition at the museum.

This vehicle originally served with Dorset Fire Brigade before it became a World Record breaker and traveled around the world to raise funds for charity. This vehicle is now on display at the museum.

Originally bright yellow and served with Rotherham Fire Brigade before being painted into traditional fire engine red for the new South Yorkshire Brigade. Currently on display but awaiting major refurbishment. 

This Steam Fire Engine would have once being pulled down the streets of London to a fire by horse. It was origionally donated directly out of service in 1920 to the Science Museum where it was kept in "last day of service" condition and is now part of the museum's collection and is now on display.

Originally served as a Water Tender with Staffordshire Fire & Rescue until it was retired into Driver Training and later donated to the museum. 

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum.

Originally served with Cornwall Fire and Rescue, spending the last few years of its opperational life as 'Yellow Spare'.

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This vehicle is part of the museums historic fleet and is stored off-site and on the road. 

New to Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Brigade in 1983.

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Currently in store after being on loan to another museum.

This small fire engine was the first Haflinger fire engine in the UK and was placed with Liverpool Fire Brigade for testing and then West Riding Fire Brigade.

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This vehicle is currently on display at the museum.

Originally served with Oradell Fire Dept, USA until it was retired from service and became part of the museum collection in the 1980s.

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This vehicle is currently in off-site store.

This German fire engine is now part of the museum collection but would have served with Bochum Fire Brigade, Germany. Bochum is Sheffield's twin City.

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This vehicle is currently in off-site store.

Originally served with the AFS (auxiliary fire service) as a general-purpose vehicle and later as a hose layer. This vehicle is currently in store.

Thornycroft, Nubian. Prototype, RAF

Originally served with the AFS (auxiliary fire service) and is now on display in the museum.

Served with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue as a rescue tender before it was donated to the museum. This vehicle is currently in off-site store.

Originally served with Sheffield Fire Brigade before being resigned into the new South Yorkshire Brigade. Currently off-site awaiting major refurbishment.