76AM003 AEC Mercury TL Edinburgh & SE Area Fire Brigade Tools Working headlight

Working headlight

The Class 08’s role as a shunter has been continued onto the heritage railways and over 60 have survived into preservation

Separate windows

Powerful 5-pole motor

3500 of these vans (diagram 1/213) were built in the mid 1950s for general goods traffic and lasted into the 1980s

76AM003 AEC Mercury TL Edinburgh & SE Area Fire Brigade Tools Working headlightThis AEC Mercury Turntable Ladder from the 1950 1960s era comes from Edinburgh. Between the launch of the Mercury TL in 1957 to the end of production in the late 1960s, almost 200 were built and over half of these came with extending Merryweather 100 ft ladders, as reproduced on this latest release, where they extend along the whole length of the appliance and beyond. Decorated in the traditional red and silver colour scheme and registered RFS 132,