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Articles for Deletion debate

This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash^talk 17:43, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Song

I moved the article on the song "Fire Engine Red (song)" to a seperate article (thought it's very short (I've never heard of it)).Rt66lt 22:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Country-specific?

Is this valid for all countries? All English-speaking countries? Or what? Where did the term originate? More info required. —DIV (128.250.247.158 (talk) 03:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC))[reply]

I searched in Google images for "Japanese fire engines", "French fire engines", "British fire engines" and "South African fire engines". Nearly every picture showed a red fire engine. That original research doesn't count as a third party source for Wikipedia of course but neither do I see any evidence that this article is American-centric.RevelationDirect (talk) 23:14, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may have missed the point. This article is about a specific shade of red. That shade is the one used in the US. While red is used elsewhere, it's not the same red. Compare the UK colour I gave to the US one you're familiar with. It's a bit like saying that orange is used as the safety colour without differentiating between international orange, as used in Space Shuttle launch and entry suits, and safety orange, used in road signs. I doubt that anyone would disagree with a claim that fire engines are usually red, but that's not quite what this article is about. Jamesday (talk) [added: 4 November 2010‎]

I think the point is that there are various shades of red which may be specified from place to place and time to time (though not before colour standards were introduced), but are widely called "fire-engine red". A Google search for this term finds that it is widely used (half a million hits); here is a "fire engine red coffee machine". Pol098 (talk) 12:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Better specificatons

This article really needs RGB specifications for the colour used and better references. Anyone? Jamesday (talk) 10:31, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It would be useful to add a picture of an old red fire engine

A picture of an old fire engine either showing or stating its colour would be useful to show that red has long been used. I've seen some on a Google image search, but don't have any copyright-free images. An old photograph will not show, but might state, the colour; a painting will; and a modern photograph of an old engine would ideally state that the colour is original. Here is one example from 1913, although a pre-motor-vehicle one would be even better.Pol098 (talk) 12:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]