Unipart's 1978 six-cylinder Series III fire tender, fitted with full-width Carmichael coachwork, tall cab glazing and roller-shutter equipment lockers.
BASE VEHICLESeries III 109″CONVERTERCarmichael & SonsIN SERVICE1978OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONUnknownLAYOUT4 wheels · 109″
The record
Bonhams records YDU 600S, chassis 941-20791-C, as a six-cylinder Series III converted to fire-tender specification by Carmichael. It formerly served Unipart and was acquired by the museum in 1993. The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust offered it at Gaydon on 29 June 2003, as a non-running restoration project without documents.
The game model follows the auction photograph's bespoke sloping cab, single broad windscreen, sliding side glazing, white stripe edged in blue, silver locker shutters, blue beacon and empty roof ladder supports. Rear details not shown by that photograph are a restrained interpretation, rather than a documented restoration specification.
PRODUCTION RUNUnknown; this record represents the individual Unipart appliance
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
REGISTRATIONYDU 600S
CHASSIS941-20791-C
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries III
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE109″
CATEGORYSpecial · Fire
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Renders & references
Front three-quarterRegistry renderThree-quarterRegistry renderSideRegistry renderRearRegistry renderFrontRegistry renderYDU 600S in the 2003 auction photograph.Bonhams ↗
Where it was
GB United Kingdom1978–1993 · Unipart works brigade; to museum 1993
