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Leyland Merryweather TL

This is a classic Leyland Merryweather TL (GHW415) that served Bristol, at the Knowl Hill steam rally near Reading. It's a standard normal control (or conventional) Leyland. Bristol Fire Brigade also ran a double seat open Leyland engine plus a fully enclosed Leyland engine with four door limousine type body and possibly others.

In 1877 five of the six insurance companies in Bristol with fire brigades gave notice of their intention to discontinue their fire services and the Council recommended that a city fire brigade should be formed as part of the Police Force. It became part of the unified National Fire Service in 1941 and remained so until 1st April 1948, when it returned to local authority control. From this time it no longer formed part of the Police Force, but was re-established as a separate entity functioning under its own Committee and with its own Chief Officer. On the 1st April 1974 responsibility for the Bristol Fire Brigade Service was taken over by Avon County Council.

Knowl Hill Steam Rally was an internationally known event that was held every August. It was last held in 2004, after which it was discontinued due to increasing insurance premiums.

Knowl Hill is a village in the civil parish of Hurley in Berkshire, England. It is 5 miles (8 km) west of Maidenhead on the A4 road toward Reading.

On the south side of the A4 is Knowl Hill Common, a hill with a view toward Windsor Castle which can be seen on a clear day. Also on the south side is a small wood called The Clumps, the name being derived from two separate groups of trees that were once significantly taller than the rest and clumped in the middle.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Knowl Hill (show map)

Taken on: August 11, 1984

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