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Class: Trucks, Fire truck
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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
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◊ 2005-06-10 18:22 |
Another picture:![[Image: 0001406gs.7739.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is94/0001406gs.7739.jpg) Maybe it uses a real vehicle as basis ? |
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◊ 2005-06-15 22:59 |
ça nous avance pas des masses, t'a pas une photo du moteur haha ! |
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◊ 2005-08-03 08:31 |
Leyland (UK) ? |
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◊ 2005-12-29 10:39 |
...more strange, you die  |
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◊ 2006-01-16 16:47 |
I did not read the novel by Ray Bradbury, but I hope it is not as insanely stupid as this movie. This must be the worst movie Truffaut ever did and needless to say it was his only involvement with Hollywood, which lead to this half-assed movie prop fire engine complete with firemen who are supposed to be sorta menacing but are as laughable as the Death Star sentry guards. Anyway, that fire engine is based on nothing, or do you really think anybody would have built anything that super-stupid outside Hollywood? |
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◊ 2006-02-21 00:46 |
Made for movie.! ..again.!! |
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◊ 2009-09-03 13:23 |
Rims could help for identification of the chassis.![[Image: pompiersaa.4546.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is198/pompiersaa.4546.jpg) ![[Image: pompiersab.7370.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is90/pompiersab.7370.jpg) ![[Image: pompiersac.899.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is90/pompiersac.899.jpg) ![[Image: pompiersaf.9185.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is134/pompiersaf.9185.jpg) ![[Image: pompiersag.8037.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is140/pompiersag.8037.jpg) ![[Image: pompiersah.8176.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is136/pompiersah.8176.jpg) Rather 4 I would say, because it's used many time during all the film. -- Last edit: 2009-09-03 13:25:36 |
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◊ 2009-09-06 16:42 |
The chassis maker could possibly be recognised by a fire engine expert. With the exception of the front end and bonnet/hood it appears to be a turntable ladder fire engine. The turntable and hydraulic ram are still visible I think, plus hose connections etc. It looks to be either pre- or post WWII and typically British. However the extreme front overhang (presumably because of the engine position) from the front axle is unusual I think. -- Last edit: 2009-09-06 16:43:14 |
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◊ 2010-04-08 12:43 |
The front overhang is maybe just a fake. Somehow this reminds me of a stripped down Routemaster. could this be possible? |
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◊ 2010-04-08 12:51 |
I doubt it, because the steering wheel is too far forward for any front engined bus chassis. On the other hand, it could be a mid-engined bus chassis designed to have a front door opposite the driver, with an entirely fake engine area stuck on the front. |
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◊ 2010-09-19 00:26 |
@ Junkman: Truffaut's “only involvement with Hollywood”? Nope. Fahrenheit 451 was produced by an ad-hoc British production company. It was filmed mostly in England (except for the monorail sequence which was shot in France), with a French director, a screenplay co-written by the director and another French writer, an Austrian star and an otherwise all-British cast and crew. No American creative involvement whatsoever. And, for its time (1966), it's a damn fine screen adaptation of Bradbury's book. Very different from the book in many ways, but it captures the spirit, if not always the letter, of the novel. |
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◊ 2010-09-19 00:37 |
That's right, a British film -- with a strangely cold feel but I always liked it. Truffaut never made a Hollywood movie. |
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◊ 2014-11-16 11:53 |
According to "Je t'aime...Moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations" (searchable on Google Books) the fire engine truck was a converted Mole-Richardson camera crane (p. 220). That explains also the seat at the top of the extendable arm. Link to "books.google.ch" -- Last edit: 2014-11-16 11:56:51 |
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◊ 2020-05-31 23:03 |
Me after first seeing the fire truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0 |
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◊ 2021-12-05 14:53 |
He never MADE a Hollywood movie but he had a pretty significant role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, playing the French scientist. |
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◊ 2023-02-03 19:16 |
Ran across this link in Mastodon, and now I'm a bit obsessed. Please forgive my newbiness, but judging by the seating position, perhaps it's this? Quote: It looks like a Leyland TD7 bus chassis/Merryweather 100ft Turntable Ladder which was powered by the Leyland 8.6-litre diesel engine.Six of this type were built in 1941 for the war effort for the National Fire Service. end quote. My only issue with this possibility is the height of the frame's top seems a bit high. From here: https://www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number1962.asp It could be a front-engined bus, EG: Link to "www.gettyimages.com" The critical bit is the driver's seating position right over the fwd axle. And I agree with Zodiak, the overhang may be artistry for this appearance. As a working camera crane truck, it could've been an enormous cooling system upgrade to make it as quiet as possible and keep the heat going a known direction. Or perhaps counter weight for traveling while the crane is pointed aft? The Mole-Richarson crane was pretty standard, I'm wondering if this was a dressed-up camera crane truck from a studio's fleet? I'm SO getting into this, I think we need to recreate this thing. |
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