F is for Follow-Up - Fire Engines

I had two eMails following the two fire service posts earlier in the week, in the order they arrived, first this dropped into the in-box, courtesy of Brian Berke, who by some miracle of synergy had managed to photograph one of the aforementioned . . .

. . . Lledo 'Days Gone' DG5 Shand-Mason Horse Drawn Fire Engine earlier in the year, but not a Lledo one; a real one . . . in New Zealand! The Ashburton museum in Christchurch to be precise, and the co-incidences don't end there as my Grandmother's family on my late father's side lived in Ashburton, North Nott's!

Meanwhile Theo van der Weerden wrote to adjust my guesswork re. makers (they were both Lledo in the middle collage) and to point out that the red Lledo is representing, or liveried for, the Ware Fire Service (the WFS on the bonnet).

Many thanks to both Brian and Theo for further colouring the previous posts.