SY58 JDF This navy blue Land Rover is a mountain rescue vehicle used by Grampian Police and St. John Ambulance. Notice that it doesn’t have a blue light bar on the roof, just two small LEDs on the grille.
The rear view of the same Land Rover. On the roof rack you can see a one-wheeled stretcher for moving casualties over tricky terrain.
Category Archives: Mountain Rescue
The mountain rescue services use 4×4 vehicles to get to difficult to reach places. Their work includes rescuing casualties and find missing people.
SH08 KFP This Vauxhall Vivaro is a MR ambulance for …
W542 EAG This white Ford Focus is a Yorkshire Ambulance …
W542 EAG This white Ford Focus is a Yorkshire Ambulance Service MR Team vehicle. It is not fitted with any emergency warning equipment.
The rear view of ther Focus with simple livery. “M.R. TEAM” is written on the boot lid and side windows. The car as an ex-front line rapid response vehicle that was moved to MR duties in 2009.
PX 29 AA This is a Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue …
PX 29 AA This is a Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service Land Rover Defender. It is fitted with two full-width blue light bars on the front and rear parts of the roof. A roof box for storage has also been added to the roof rack.
The rear shot of the RAF MRT Land Rover. The vehicle is looking rather sorry for itself with rusty steel wheels and a heavily faded livery.
NK53 TYA This Land Rover Defender is with Teesdale …
W371 PSG Skye MRT’s Land Rover. …
SP56 ABX This Land Rover is the “Mobile 2” vehicle …
This is one of the first outings of a new ambulance …
W904 XDM This Land Rover is used by Kinder Mountain …
76 AM 26 This classic image from 1979 shows an …
YN07 WHS is a 2007 Land Rover 110 TD4 used by the Buxton …
YN07 WHS is a 2007 Land Rover 110 TD4 used by the Buxton Mountain Rescue Team, with the call sign ‘Mobile 1’. The vehicle is designed to carry rescue equipment as well as a stretcher. Note how this vehicle is almost identical to the Land Rover used by neighbouring Edale MRT, shown elsewhere in this section.
The rear view of the heavily laden Land Rover.
YG03 XUF is a 2003 Ford Transit minibus, call sign …
YG03 XUF is a 2003 Ford Transit minibus, call sign ‘Mobile 2’, used as a support vehicle by Buxton MRT. Buxton Team is a member of the Mountain Rescue Council of England and Wales and is a division of St John Ambulance.
The rear view of the Ford Transit showing the extensive front and rear roof mounted light bars.
This caravan provides an incident control for the …
T975 PGB is a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van used …
X697 USX This Land Rover Defender 110 is used …
NU56 GKY This is a Toyota Hilux that is used by the RAF …
NU56 GKY This is a Toyota Hilux that is used by the RAF Mountian Rescue Service. It is fitted with a hefty winch on the front and a range of blue flashing lights.
The rear view of the Hilux. Notice the number of flashing blue and red lights on the rear, partly due to the lack of visibility to the roof-mounted light bar.
YP05 WHS This very smart silver Land Rover is used …
T151 BST is a Ford Transit that is used in Scotland …
V388 ESX Here another of Lochaber MRT’s fleet can …
In this scene, the Lochaber team scramble into …
SS03 BVZ is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter that is used …
P493 JAS is a blue Land Rover Defender that is used …
J344 UDU is one of Swaledale MRT’s rescue ambulances…
J344 UDU is one of Swaledale MRT’s rescue ambulances. Based at Catterick, they respond to about 25 emergency calls per year. Notice the length of rope on the front and the ‘rescue’ mirror-image ‘number plate’.
The rear view of the 1992 Land Rover. Inside is seating, a stretcher and an array of equipment.
The above ambulance used to be a front line vehicle with Durham County Ambulance Service in the 1990s. Here it is in its former paint-scheme and roll in early 2000.
PY52 JSX & J238 BAO are two of Cockermouth MRT’s …
PY52 JSX This is a cloder look at the Land Rover used …
PY52 JSX This is a cloder look at the Land Rover used by Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team to get help to people who are in difficulties on the fells in the Lake District, Cumbria. A full blue light bar on the roof is complemented with repeaters on the front bumper and around the roof rack.
Flashing blue and white lights help motorists see the vehicle a distance away. This is the one of the three vehicles operated by Cockermouth MRT.
The rear view of the same Land Rover. You can see that the spare wheel cover has specially made art work on it, and the windows are tinted black.
G693 NHH leaving the rescue base. It is a 1990 blue Land …
G693 NHH leaving the rescue base. It is a 1990 blue Land Rover 110 V8 also with Cockermouth and is equipped in the same way as the 2002 example above. Notice the bulky winch fitted to the front and the orange paintwork around the grille to increase its road presence.
The rear view of the same Land Rover. It can carry eight people to an incident on the fells using its 182 bhp V8 engine. This Land Rover (G693 NHH) was made famous by being featured in a two-page spread in the “Big Book of Rescue Vehicles”.
J238 BAO This white Land Rover Defender 110 has …
MX05 XFK is Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue …
MX05 XFK is Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team’s Land Rover Defender ambulance. It has a simple battenburg livery and bright yellow grille to attract attention. It has a roof box for equipment next to the blue light bar. Repeater blue lights are on the front grille and front wings, as well as at the rear.