Author: UK Emergency Vehicles

G391 REC In this moody shot, Glossop MRT’s Land Rover can be seen in deep show as the winter sun sets.



The same Land Rover is seen here earlier in the day as it battles through deep snow drifts.

J263 TNCThis triple image shows Glossop MRT’s Land Rover Defender ambulance conversion.

YN07 WHS, FJ58 ZCF and MV54 AYE join the above vehicle for a line up of Glossop’s vehicles at the start of 2010.

V908 JGA Glencoe MRT operate this Honda Civic support car. It is decked out with blue and yellow striping on the front bumper and carries “Mountain Rescue” and “Glencoe Rescue” wording.

YW52 FKX This four wheel drive long wheel base Mercedes Sprinter is used by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service. It is equipped with side mounted flood lights to illuminate the area at an incident.

VU09 OVV This Toyota High Lux is also used by the RAF Mountain Rescue Service. It wears an updated livery compared to the Mercedes Sprinter above.

PE08 HXK Here we have before and after shots of Keswick MRT’s Land Rover. This shot shows it with painted roof, roof-rack, floodlights and blue light bar. Small blue flashing LEDs are also fitted.



The after shot. Now with full livery applied and some additional equipment, the vehicle now stands out much more on the road and moorland.

MX05 XFK This Land Rover is used by Rossendale and Pendle Mountain Rescue Team in Lancashire.



The rear of the Land Rover.

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.

SH08 KFP This Vauxhall Vivaro is a MR ambulance for the Lochaber area. It has a full-width blue light bar on the roof and additional front fog lamps.



The rear and side views. On the side are sponsors’ logos and a mountain range scene.

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 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 and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team. The County Durham-based team have painted the headlight surrounds in bright yellow to increase the road presence in motorists rear-view mirrors.

W371 PSG Skye MRT’s Land Rover.



The rear view, showing that they are affiliated with the Order of St. John Transport Service.

SP56 ABX This Land Rover is the “Mobile 2” vehicle of Braemar MRT. Notice the absence of any blue lights.

This is one of the first outings of a new ambulance Landrover for Langdale / Ambleside MRT. It is one of two identical first response vehicles.

W904 XDM This Land Rover is used by Kinder Mountain Rescue Team.

76 AM 26 This classic image from 1979 shows an RAF Mountain Rescue Land Rover. It has dark blue bodywork with yellow accents, in a similar style to Coastguard vehicles. Notice the Raynet radio operator with large backback on the right.

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 ‘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 Buxton MRT. It has a large extendable communications aerial mounted to its left hand side. The caravan is usually towed by the Ford Transit support vehicle.

T975 PGB is a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van used by Glencoe MRT.

X697 USX This Land Rover Defender 110 is used by Dundonnell MRT in the Scottish North West Highlands.



The rear view, showing the ‘Order of St. John Transport Service’ logos.

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 in the Peak District by Edale MRT. Notice that it doesn’t have a blue light bar on the roof. Extra roof space is gained by having numerous flashing blue leds around the periphery of the roof rack.

T151 BST is a Ford Transit that is used in Scotland by Lochaber Mountian Rescue. The van is showing its age with patches of rust visible and a very minimal livery. A comms antenna and a blue light bar can be seen on the roof.

V388 ESX Here another of Lochaber MRT’s fleet can be seen alongside the Transit, a Land Rover Defender. Again it is minimally marked and has blue lights fitted to the front grille, but none on the roof.

In this scene, the Lochaber team scramble into a Royal Navy Sea King rescue helicopter to be transported to an emergency on the West coast of Scotland.

SS03 BVZ is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter that is used in Scotland by the RAF Mountain Rescue Service.

P493 JAS is a blue Land Rover Defender that is used by the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team to respond to emergencies. The only clue that it is used by an emergency service is the blue beacon on the roof. It is used for towing a trailer.

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 Land Rovers. They are parked in the valley as the team are on an exercise on Buttermere Fell in the background.

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 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 a V8 petrol engine too. The front grille has orange and white checker markings across it and the vehicle has a full complement of blue flashing lights.



The rear view of the same go-anywhere Land Rover.

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.

H881 XCK This is one of Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team’s Land Rover 110s. It has a bright yellow front grille and equipment stowed on the roof under the blue sheeting.

H881 CFR Another picturesque view of an almost identical sister vehicle.



The rear view of the Land Rover, showing the conspicuity of the livery.



The same Land Rover again with its previous livery which is less eye-catching from the rear.

L510 DFV This Leyland DAF is used by Bowland Pennine MRT as an incident control vehicle.

CN04 NPC is a Land Rover Defender 110 TD5 used by the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team. The roof and the inside of the vehicle are filled with specialist rescue equipment. Notice how the roof light bar is nearly covered by the substantial roof rack.



The rear view, showing the additional blue rotating beacon above the rear door. Notice the wording on the wheel cover advising other vehicles to stay back from the Land Rover.

This Land Rover is in service with Western Beacons Mountain Rescue Team. It has orange and white battenburg markings down the sides and blue lights on the roof rack.

PN02 SVR This is a Keswick Mountain Rescue Land Rover Defender Td5.



The side view of the same Landy. It has minimal livery but the bright orange stripe and roof make it stand out from other traffic. All sides have bright floodlights to illuminate the ground immediate around the vehicle.



The rear view. The high-intensity blue flashing lights at the rear complement the light bar at the front of the roof and the repeaters on the front grille. The white pole to the right is a telescopic communications antenna, essential in mountainous terrain where mobile ‘phones don’t work.



The rear three-quarter view. The registration plate is just visible behind the ladder and mesh protector.