The record
The Salamander gave the Royal Air Force a crash tender that could leave the runway and reach an aircraft down on rough ground, on the same six-wheel-drive chassis as the Saladin and the Saracen. It served the RAF until 1978 and the Royal Canadian Air Force as well.
The original Alvis brochure describes independent wishbone suspension, a boat-form chassis with a flat underside and steering on the front four wheels. Its 120-inch total wheelbase is split into two equal 60-inch intervals. The quoted 102-inch height is to the cab roof; the foam monitor projects above it.
The London museum vehicle supplies the red livery and rectangular foam outlet represented here. The supplied Scampton images are museum views, not service-period photographs, and the PV-1-6 photograph shows a load-carrying prototype without firefighting equipment. The manufacturer brochure also names South African and Royal Ceylon use of the chassis family; the modeled RAF body record retains the positively supported United Kingdom and Canada operators.
