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On Duty

Police, fire and army: vehicles you used to call for help, now parked for the admiring crowd.

A recreated patrol car of the Citizens’ Militia, communist Poland’s police: MILICJA lettering, a blue beacon with two loudspeakers on the
A recreated patrol car of the Citizens’ Militia, communist Poland’s police: MILICJA lettering, a blue beacon with two loudspeakers on the roof and old-style black plates. It is an FSO 125p, the name the Polski Fiat took after the Fiat license ran out in 1983.
Żuk vans in fire-department red (1/2)
Żuk vans in fire-department red (2/2)
Żuk vans in fire-department red. Built in Lublin from the late 1950s to 1998, they served volunteer fire companies across Poland for decades.
A fire truck politely asking you to “SLOW DOWN,” and the builder’s plate of its generator, made by Karelma in Piechowice (1/2)
A fire truck politely asking you to “SLOW DOWN,” and the builder’s plate of its generator, made by Karelma in Piechowice (2/2)
A fire truck politely asking you to “SLOW DOWN,” and the builder’s plate of its generator, made by Karelma in Piechowice.
A UAZ-452 ambulance with a red cross on the door (1/2)
A UAZ-452 ambulance with a red cross on the door (2/2)
A UAZ-452 ambulance with a red cross on the door. In Russia it is the “bukhanka,” the loaf of bread, and one look tells you why.
Stars from Starachowice: a red Star dump truck and a military Star 266 wearing number 002 (1/2)
Stars from Starachowice: a red Star dump truck and a military Star 266 wearing number 002 (2/2)
Stars from Starachowice: a red Star dump truck and a military Star 266 wearing number 002. In 1988 two specially prepared Star 266s ran the Paris-Dakar Rally and both made it to the finish in Senegal, just outside the time limit.