A friend's son wants to run an imported (from Germany) VW Kombi, keeping it in the Feuerwehr livery including two blue beacons on the roof.
My guess is it'll be no problem so long as he does not use the blue lights on the road. Is there clear case/statute law on this?
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Should be covered when on road.
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I saw a classic 60's ambulance the other day and it had uncovered blue lights whilst on the public road.
Don't know what this means legally though!
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I'm ready to stand corrected, but I understand that the rules are :
1) The blue lights must be covered when on the public highway.
2) Any Police insignia including the word "Police" must also be covered when on the highway.
Apart from that, it is perfectly legal to own and use a "replica" police vehicle - I assume the same rules apply to foreign police vehicles in private ownership.
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Colin-E
Edited by colin-e on 06/11/2007 at 10:54
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this Yank police car hire website says they use clear lenses on the light bar when on public roads:
www.cophire.net/
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It would be interesting if this rule applies to foreign vehicles still their their original livery and fittings. Would it only apply if the word "Police" were recognisable in English? What about cyrilic script, or arabic, or chinese?
Supposing the vehicle was from an organisation that has no equivalent in this country?
eg I once saw a perfectly restored Trabant complete with East German border guard livery, and a carefully displayed officers uniform and cap on the rear shelf.
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The vehicle is ex-fire dept, and says "Feuerwehr" only - no mention of the P word...
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I should have paid more attention in German lessons at school (instead of doodling pictures of the Berlin wall!)
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Not sure about the law, but I've seen the local plod cars with blues covered when driven by civvies to garages.
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Me too, the local plod mechanics have the blue lights covered when "road testing".
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Saw a new Tayside Fire Engine in Glasgow last week driven by a civvy and all signage and blue lights was uncovered.
Incidentally what is a fire brigade as thats what I called one of these vehicles all my life? Is the vehicle Brigade or is Brigade the old name for "Fire & Rescue Service"? Just wondering!
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Brigade is the old term for the Fire and Rescue sevice; the vehicles are properly described as tenders or appliances. The normal tender used also to be described as a 'pump escape' , the other main variation is the 'turntable' with the long, powered ladder, now usually the 'Simon snorkel' sort of hydraulic platform.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 06/11/2007 at 21:23
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I saw a classic 60's ambulance the other day and it had uncovered blue lights whilst on the public road.
With the reported state of the NHS it may well have been on 'official' business :-)
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This was asked elsewhere LY and he got the law on the subject.
dvd
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A relative is a Civilian "bad boys bus" driver for HMP Service, his allocated vehicles are often fitted with "Blues", he cant use them whilst simply ferrying bad-lads about from clink to clink, but can do when he's being escorted in convoy by the Police on a Court run. Never covered them on public roads.
Billy
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