U.S. TV errors

"Svend" (svend) 10/03/2019 at 23:59 • Filed to: None

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U.S. TV errors when depicting the U.K.

Episode of ‘FBI’ Season 1, Episode 10.

We’re in the U.K. at a small airport, or are we.

The British officers are standing in front of a refueling truck*, only the aviation fuel sign isn’t in a U.K. format.

U.K. format

The cars, the Range Rover and the strangely LHD Audi, neither have a U.K. format licence plate.

Come on people, if your going to spend large amounts of money on filming, cast wages, etc... spend a few dollars on a Google search and have have some decals/signs made.

*I’ll let the refueling truck itself slide because we do have American ambulances at Heathrow

‘Heathrow Air Ambulance’.

smobgirl > Svend 10/04/2019 at 00:33

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Skittles ambulances!

not for canada - australian in disguise > Svend 10/04/2019 at 00:36

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Fun fact! Those Sterlings were actually sold in Europe (though I’m not sure if they made it to the UK) officially, but not as Sterlings, rather as Fords.

Sterling was the name used by Daimler to sell Ford’s line of trucks after Ford pulled out of the heavy truck market and sold their heavy truck division to Daimler, previously it had been a dormant brand that hadn’t been used since 1953 when White (one of Daimler Trucks North America ’s predecessors through the Freightliner brand , now known as Volvo Trucks North America) discontinued the brand in favour of their own trucks.

Still, I don’t think Sterling badged trucks ever made it to Europe, as Daimler focused on their Mercedes and Fuso brands instead.

Svend > smobgirl 10/04/2019 at 00:48

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They all h a ve private plates too,

White, A13HAA, 2005. 

Red, A14HAA, 2002. 

Yellow, A17HAA, 2006. 

Green, B9HAA, 2000. 

Red, ((I can’t make out)) 

White, A16HAA, 2003. 

Svend > not for canada - australian in disguise 10/04/2019 at 00:58

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I can’t see them ever coming to the U.K unless they did RHD ones (I know we have LHD trucks here in the U.K. for certain purposes like this 2009 16litre MAN that was only built in LHD but this haulage company wanted to transport trains). 

duurtlang > not for canada - australian in disguise 10/05/2019 at 09:27

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That truck has Dutch plates. Yet, as a Dutchman, I don’t believe I have ever seen American style trucks like that in Europe.

not for canada - australian in disguise > duurtlang 10/05/2019 at 16:47

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I don’t believe they sold many at all, considering Ford had sold most of their European truck division to Iveco at that point, as well as (as you mentioned) the ubiquity of cabovers over hooded trucks.