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The History of BA in the British Fire Service -1963

To take account of the newly established recording and supervising procedures for BA introduced into the Fire Service, Part I of Manuals of Firemanship was reprinted. However, it only dealt in general term with the subject & the reader is referred to Fire Service Circular 19/1962.

JULY
As the 32nd meeting of the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council on 4 July 1963 the Council approved a report by the sub-committee set up to inquire into the operational use of BA and the use and procedures for communications equipment.

OCTOBER
These recommendations were later to be circulated to brigades as FIRE SERVICE CIRCULAR 30/1963 which recommended:-

  1. Types of communications equipment later to come under specification JCDD/19/1 (Joint Council for Design and Development).
  2. The procedures to be adopted with such equipment.
  3. Where guidelines were used together with personal lines, a hook with serrations on one side was to be provided on the personal line. When hooked to the guideline, the serrations were to be on the way out side. A diagram of such a hook was appended.

Still no standards or procedures for guide and personal lines.


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