A Revolution In Fire Engines. New Strealined Saloon For London Fire Brigade. The new streamlined fire engine photographed on arrival at the Southwark Headquarters , showing the crew in their gasmasks standing beside it. The London Fire Brigade are going to cause a sensation with their new streamlined fire engine which they took delivery of at Guildford yesterday. It is streamliner, a saloon in which the driver and firemen are enclosed and protected from the weather. February 22, 1935. (Photo by Keystone).