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Fire Apparatus Models
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Left: This exhibit was installed in Gallery Three in 1999. Most of the models in this case are made by Danbury Mint, Franklin Mint, and First Gear. |
 | The museum owns over 500 models of fire equipment. About 400 of these are scale models, plastic or die cast metal. A few of these are scratch built, but most are from kits or makers like Matchbox, Franklin Mint, Code 3 or Danbury Mint. |
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| Above: This plastic scale model of a 1913 Dennis with its escape ladder accompanies the Bayleys escape which is on exhibit in Gallery Two. The number 61 refers to the Bayleys Escape. | Above: A kit built model of a New Yorker style engine used by the New York City Volunteer Fire Department's Red Rover Company. |
| The museum also owns about fifty custom built models that are not to a precise scale. Most of these were built by James Jackson, an Oswego, NY firefighter who built many models during the 1940s and 50s. Our Jackson models were donated by Mr. Timothy Stillman. They are a kind of folk art, built with whatever materials Mr. Jackson thought would be useful. They range from An American La France JOX aerial truck to an 1880 Hayes aerial, and include Pirsches, Seagraves, Macks, Ahrens Foxes, Fords, Jeeps, and Internationals. |
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Left: A scratch built model of a German fire house and equipment. |
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Left: Another scratch built model of a tillered aerial truck. |
| About thirty models are now on display. |
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