Quite an interesting discussion and also interesting to see Jason's perception that Police, Fire and Ambulance don't have County uniforms.
Of course this is a commonly held perception and is the result of similarity rather than uniformity.
However Police Services in England and Wales have only recently adopted common uniforms in the last couple of years, Ambulance Trusts are obviously now at Regional level and although they have very similar uniforms (largely green) they do have variations. East of England are shortly to switch back to white shirts from the current green.
And Fire Services are to have a new national uniform in England and Wales but this has not yet been rolled out. And of course Scotland and Northern Ireland are different.
All three of course have different vehicle liveries but I bet most people you ask would say Police Cars and Ambulances are white and fire engines are red.
Yet we all know that Police cars these days can be silver, black, dark blue, red or even electric blue in the case of the Essex Imprezas
And Ambulances are mostly yellow these days
And there are a few Fire Services that use flourescent orange vehicles.
So why do we have these perceptions?
Well largely because we remember what has been in use for many years and that imprints on our subconcious, so looks like we have a long way to go
One thing we can do is if we are visiting shows this year to have a common brand when publicising ourselves. So the National schemes should predominate with local schemes taking a lesser role?
For instance which groups are these from?
