Dennis F8, Cheshire County Fire Brigade, 1953

A Dennis F8 first registered in 1953 for the Cheshire County Fire Brigade, rolling through the Alsager Carnival parade in June 2025. Dennis Brothers of Guildford was to British fire brigades what Mack and American LaFrance were in the United States, and the F8, with its Rolls-Royce petrol engine, chrome grille and ladder on the roof, is the classic shape of a 1950s British fire engine. Dennis built more than 150 of them.