TVAC

TVAC ("The Vehicle Application Centre") is a company, based in Lancashire, which assembles bodies for fire trucks.

Establishment

In 1996 TVAC approached Plastisol, based in the Netherlands. At this time Plastisol produced bodies for airport crash fire engines. TVAC wanted Plastisol to produce bodies for smaller fire trucks, and TVAC would assemble similar bodies under licence for the United Kingdom market.

The first vehicle bodied by TVAC was "R101 NBV", a DAF 55 truck, for the Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service, the brigade that covered the area that TVAC's factory is located in. This body had a number of technological innovations. The bodies were made with injected resin, and were an integral unit containing the main body and water tank. This made the appliance lighter, and also left more room for storage compartments.

TVAC's bodies have become very popular in the UK.

Customers

* Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue
* Central Scotland Fire & Rescue
* Cheshire Fire Brigade
* Cleveland Fire Brigade
* Derbyshire Fire & Rescue
* Dumfries & Galloway Fire & Rescue
* Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue
* Lancashire Fire & Rescue
* Leicestershire Fire & Rescue
* London Fire Brigade
* Merseyside Fire & Rescue
* Norfolk Fire Service
* Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue
* Northumberland Fire & Rescue