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Thanks for the feedback! In creating videos in the future, I am going to keep that in mind and try to get a clip of each engine. You may even see some shorts coming this summer with just engine sounds!
…I’d like to have one repurposed as a traveling store, to visit at retirement homes, with an exit at the back, for walk through, so elderly could purchase incidentals and a clip board where they could request future items…
Vehicles like this one operated between towns & centres in New Zealand during the 1930;s. Called Service Cars here, they were mostly built on extended Cadillac, Hudson, Studebaker chassis. Some still exist. Cheers.
Hi Kenneth - To our knowledge it is not but you can read all about it - and the history of Hamerly - by purchasing a digital or print copy of Issue 39 of Vintage Fire Truck Magazine.
This is what classic vehicles are about to me. Customize them to your liking and DRIVE them. People give me so much slack for daily driving my cars and using my trucks for work. If they break I'll fix it, if they dent I'll remove it, if it rolls over 99,999 miles I'll just tell everyone it has extremely low miles.
Seagrave 70th anniversary series...1951- 1969, Detroit had bunch of the sedan series seagrave engines, St Paul had 6 70th series ladder trucks,25+ yrs service from each ladder...seagrave since 1880👍
Another great video! That had to have been one of the first years for the Federal Twinsonic light bar. I wonder if it was so expensive that a protective cage was added over it?
That was nice! I believe the Darley 300 GPM pump was capable of high pressure? I could not tell what they were using for streams in the flashback at the end.
Nice post 👍👍 I see 2 of our St Paul FD x- ladders here,1957 we got 3 85' midship seagrave ladders,#3,#5,#7, we got 25 + yrs service,then sold them to small MN towns
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There's just something about these older / vintage trucks that most younger firefighters will never really appreciate with their automatic transmissions,L.E.D.& strobe lights,their electric pump transfer switches & electronic tank supply lights & fancy air brakes & all their million dollar trucks that are no doubt great trucks,but the vintage trucks required us older firefighters to learn the fundamentals of pump operations, drafting from rivers & ponds & things like friction loss on an old rubber coated can as hose. Now days the new trucks have G.P.S. location, automatic pumps & 100 channel radios & tender/ tankers that carry 3000 gallons of water & the young firepups run out of water before they can put out an outhouse or shed.
@@Genninap I can't tell if it is a dual tone or not? Usually the older dual tones had 2 perforated disc,one turned slightly slower & had fewer perforations ; the sirens were controlled by a momentary contact foot pedal, just as the modern Federal Q series " growlers" are; the longer you hold the pedal down the higher the R.P.M.S. get & the sirens get louder & higher pitched!. The old single tone just had one perforated disc.
As apparatus buff 75 yrs,in total agreement with you👍👍...hearing loss frequently up till horns/ sirens had to go onto bumper area,via NFPA regs...back when a single beacon ray enough to get traffic moved
The first pumper I was assigned to was on a 1954 Ward LaFrance. The nose of the truck was nearly 9 feet long and it had a wooden steering wheel. Double clutching was the order of the day, and there was no power steering, so I had good biceps. ✌️
Sammy lied about what happened because he never said anything about him driving and Sammy got away with it, that shows u he's a lier and tells it his way. Sammy even tries to put him away and it's all about Sammy, it's no telling what he lied about, jo was loyal to the end and said he knew nothing, that's what a gangster does, he knew nothing
