The Dennis Dagger is a compact fire engine manufactured by

Dennis Specialist Vehicles Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English manufacturer of commercial vehicles based in Guildford, building buses, fire engines, lorries (trucks) and municipal vehicles such as dustcarts. All vehicles were made to order to the customer's requirem ...

from 1998 to 2007. It was built for fire brigades operating in narrow rural areas unsuitable for full-size fire engines, a market previously explored by the

Dennis DS series The Dennis DS series was a compact fire engine with a tilting cab built by Dennis Specialist Vehicles from 1979 to the early 1990s. It was almost visually and mechanically identical in construction to the Dennis RS/SS series with the exception ...

. First designed in 1997 with the internal codename of ''F98'' (short for ''Fire 1998''), production would begin by 2002. Visually and mechanically similar to the full-size

Dennis Sabre The Dennis Sabre is a purpose-built fire engine produced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles of Guildford, Surrey, England from 1995 to 2007. It was the last full-size fire appliance produced by the company before its closure in 2007. Features Built a ...

, the Dennis Dagger could be bodied with a John Dennis Coachbuilders body. Sales were originally aimed at the Kent and Devon and Somerset fire services, but in competition with other narrow truck conversions such as the MAN truck range, the Dagger sold poorly, going on to be the final new fire engine produced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles before the company's closure in 2007. Operators of the Dennis Dagger included the

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and West Sussex fire brigades, with the

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and the Dublin Fire Brigade respectively operating two former demonstrators. A development chassis was registered as late as 2011.

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