fire trucks ( WW2) east coast Australia

[Wayne Henderson]

The last active CMP fire trucks I saw were in the Coolup Local Bushfire Brigade in the early 1990's. Painted up yellow with a orange flashing light. I ended up with one of the 4 they had.

There are still a few around on farms but time has caught up with most of them now.

Jim, you would know of the two sad cases in Brookton, one a fire tender, the other a canteen vehicle.

Northam also had several Blitz fire trucks and as one local told me, "as soon as the sirens started the blitz went straight to the pub to get the beer because by the time it got to the fire it was out."

I think there is a fire truck still in the Northam area theat was professionally turned out as a fire tender with ladders, pumps, hoses, closed sides and crew seats- very post war.