Stock Photo - A typical London fire brigade Sub-station watch and their equipment. Taxi's were used as make-shift fire engines that towed trailer pumps. Ladders were on the top of the taxi and hose carried in the luggage compartment. 2000 taxi's would be brought in service and deployed around London and its suburbs.

Stock Photo: A typical London fire brigade Sub-station watch and their equipment. Taxi's were used as make-shift fire engines that towed trailer pumps.