In my time as a Prentice mechanic at Sutherland council in the early 1980s my self and a leading hand mechanic was given the job of converting near new TK Bedford 4x4s from petrol to diesel.
The reason was because of the lost of Two fire crews at Heathcote oval due the petrol engines vapour locking.
From 1985 insurance companies in NSW would not touch petrol engined fire tankers ect.
The insurance companies caused the conversion of older trucks to Diesel.............any operational petrol units of any type from 1985 were not covered and therefore became museum or historic vehicles within the NSW RFS and would not be used if the powers to be found out about it.
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