Showing posts with label fire trucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fire trucks. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Bob McDorman Collection is going to be auctioned at Mecum, Nov 5th and 6th, no reserve


1927 Chevrolet SOHIO Tanker Truck (SOHIO =Standard Oil company of Ohio)




1920 Chevrolet SOHIO horse drawn gas wagon


1927 Chevrolet Wrecker 1 Ton



1929 Chevrolet Fire Truck 1 Ton
For the whole collection gallery, as it has "150 Cars including the World's Most Complete Corvette Collection"

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

1922 Dodge touring in the Washington DC Fire Department

This is a 1922 Dodge Touring Car, DCFD Serial No. 05, assigned to the Superintendent of Machinery. The DCFD Repair Shop is in the background next to Engine Co. 8 quarters. The American LaFrance in one of Engine 8's apparatus bays may be a 1920 750 gpm pumper DCFD Serial No. 125 which was assigned to Engine 8

From Shorpy

Saturday, August 7, 2010

When you think about barn find fire trucks, do you ever think they'd be in a 1912 fire station in Pakistan? Two were! Stored since the late 60's

The short person in white is Maureen Lines, http://www.hindukushconservation.com/maureen_lines.html and she is quite possibly the person most to thank for the fire trucks coming into the light for the first time in over 4 decades. She made the right contacts in the Pakistani government to see that the 2 fire trucks were made available to restorers like Romano!

I believe she concieved the idea to have the fire engines added to the National Heritage Trust, and she asked the Highway patrol to bring in heavy moving equipment to persude the fire engines to roll out of their long hibernation

the two are 1919 and 1921 models, one is red the other was painted black http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Pakistan/West/North-West_Frontier/Peshawar/photo37422.htm




In the above and below photos you'll notice that this fire truck is painted black, and the other photos are of the red fire truck






If you like these, and ever find yourself in Pakistan, you'l want to take a look at the working one that is in Karachi. For a gallery of these fire engines:
http://picasaweb.google.com/romanokarim/FireEngines#

Friday, August 6, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

9000 original mile Diamond T fire truck has been stuffed away in Chuck's garage for 20 years



Thanks to Jim for sharing this with us! Except for a couple emergency runs, training, and maybe a parade or two... this hasn't been used or abused in it's 70 years or so. Garages are very kind to furetrucks!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

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