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

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

1933 Minerva Firetruck

http://www.brusselspictures.com/autoworld/belgium-cars/

The SD Fire Dept training area has this cool old firetruck for the new recruits to learn on... good idea




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

Terrific stuff from before the 1930's

1918 and most of those tires have snow chains
1920 Wash DC and a Stutz

1925 Semmes Motor Co

last of the Wash DC fire dept horses, 1925

above, 1926

Yellow Coach 719 1937 Greyhound bus

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#

realistic diorama in the Saskatoon (Canada), Western Developement Museum

Setting the scene of the dustbowl and depression era farms... wow

this museum has a lot of surprising finds, a Minneapolis Moline UDLX tractor, this fire engine, a recretion of a frontier city with fully stocked stores, stations, and homes. A must see if you are ever traveling through Canada.

Progress on the 1920's Merryweather fire engine restoration in Peshawar Pakistan

For the way it looked when found see: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-you-think-about-barn-find-fire.html

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Gotta praise firefighters

Chemical fire extinguiser 1910

1915
Ladder 1900

Ladder 1944
Locomobile

And they way cool vehicles they've used in the way back days, some when horses had to pull the firefighting equipment around. From http://www.thepostroad.com/bfd/photos.html these are photos of the Bridgeport Fire Dept.

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"