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The listing below contains information on seven of the museum's major holdings of motorized apparatus. Return to the listing of all motorized pieces by clicking here.
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Year |
Nation |
Maker |
Description |
Picture |
1946 |
U.S. |
Maxim |
Maxim Fire Engine. 1946 Triple comb. fire engine. ex - Cheshire, CT. |
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1947 |
U.S. |
Seagrave |
Triple comb. fire engine. ex - Vandergrift, PA and ALCOA Fire Brigade. 750 gpm two stage pump. 300 gallon tank. |
Seagrave
Canopy Cab Fire Engine. 1947.
Seagrave copied the ideas of the English Fire Service in its design
of this fire engine. During
the 1930s many English firemen were thrown from their engines in accidents
or collisions with other vehicles.
The English responded with bus - like fire engines with closed cabs
and crew compartments.
Seagrave built this engine to provide similar protection for
American firemen.
The design was not popular with American fire departments, though
Seagrave built them for over 10 years.
During the 1960s the increased concern with safety, coupled with
attacks on firefighters during riots, finally led to the acceptance of
closed cab engines with crew compartments. This
piece was originally built for the Volunteer Fire Department of
Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. It later served
in the ALCOA Industrial Fire Department near Pittsburgh.
It was restored by Don Hale in 1999. The engine uses a V-12
gasoline engine based on the Auburn V-12. It has 750 gpm two stage
pump and has a 300 gallon booster tank. The design had an alley in
the hose bed that allowed firemen to proceed to a seat atop the booster
tank, which they could ride to the fire. The Vendergrift Fire
Department converted this alleyb to a hose bed, and extended the width of
the rear running board or "step", allowing firemen to "ride
the step" to fires in the tried and true fashion. Don
restored the truck to its original configuration.
|
1948 |
U.S. |
Willys / Howe |
Jeep fire engine w/ water trailer. Ex - Lake Geneva, WI. 500 gpm single stage Barton pump. water trailer holds 200 gallons. |
Willys
/ Howe Model CJ2 Fire Engine. 1948.
After World War II Willys redesigned its famous military Jeep to a
more refined configuration, launching its civilian mode as the “CJ”
(Civilian Jeep). The
company sold several hundred CJ2s to the Howe Fire Apparatus Company,
which converted the Jeep to a small fire engine suitable for use in rural
areas. With a
500 gpm front mounted pump and a hose capacity of several hundred feet of
2 ˝” to 1” sizes, the rig could be connected to a fire hydrant or
configured to draft water from a pond or other waterway.
The Jeep came with a 200 gallon capacity water trailer which
allowed it to get into action at once.
It
was used
originally by the owner of a large farm in Wisconsin, who sold it to
museum founder George F. Getz, Jr.
Mr. Getz loaned it to the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Fire Department,
which used it for over ten years. Lake Geneva returned it to the Hall of
Flame in 1984. It
was refurbished by Don Hale in 1991.
|
1950 |
U.S. |
Autocar /Edgar Car Works |
High pressure fog fire engine. ex - Ardmore, PA. 70 gpm Hardie Pump. 500 gallon tank. compartments for wet water and Class B foam. |
Autocar High Pressure Fog Engine. 1950. This unit uses technology introduced by the John Bean Company in the 1930s to spray fruit orchards with insecticides. Bean adapted its high pressure piston pumps to fire apparatus around 1938, and the U.S. Navy employed the pumps for fire protection during World War II. Pumped at pressures of over 700 psi, the tiny fog particles lower the temperature of This
rig is the result of such thinking. It
has a 500 gallon water tank that supplies a 70 gpm pump with water at up
to 700 pounds per square inch. It
can be parked as close to a burning structure as possible, with no need to
connect to a hydrant. The two
high pressure hose lines can be used at once.
Fires in rooms or small attics can be extinguished rapidly with
very little water damage. During its 27 years in the Philadelphia suburb
of Ardmore, the truck made over 8000 runs. Despite this heavy use, it was
well kept by the Ardmore Volunteers. It
still has its original coat of paint and has been modified very slightly
from its 1950 appearance. |
1951 |
U.S. |
Mack |
Model A fire engine. Ex - Eagle Valley, NY. 505 Thermodyne engine, 500 gpm Waterous single stage pump, 150gallon tank. |
Mack
Model A Fire Engine. 1951.
Mack built over 24,000 Model A’s, about 300 of which were fire
engines. The
model was popular with
volunteer fire departments.
Its 510 cubic inch “Thermodyne” gasoline engine’s 180
horsepower is more than
adequate for it’s 500 gpm pump.
Top speed is over 60 miles per hour.
The engine served the town of Eagle Valley, New York.
Don Hale restored it in 1994. |
1969 |
U.S. |
Mack |
Model CF600 Engine ex-Calumet City, IL. 1,250 gpm single stage Waterous pump, 500 gallon tank. |
Mack fire engines have always been extremely popular in the states of the northeastern United States, especially New York and Pennsylvania, where Mack operated several factories. This engine was Mack's second version of the cab forward design, which first appeared in 1966 as a replacement for the Model C. At one point every engine in the New York City Fire Department was a model CF. This ebgine was used in Calumet City, Illinois from 1969 to 1999, when it was donated to the Hall of Flame. Hallof Flame volunteers drove the rig from Calumet City to the museum with no problems. The engine has a single stage 1,000 gpm Waterous pump, a 500 gallon booster tank, a deluge pipe, and capacity for over a thousand feet of hose. Power comes from a V-6 Thermodyne diesel engine. It is called a canopy cab design with seats for two firefighters in front and two firefighters on jump seats. Its compact design and relatively short wheel base make it quite maneuverable for a first line fire engine. The truck was restored by Don Hale in 2004. |
1961 |
Germany |
Mercedes/Metz |
TLF-8 fire engine w/ foam trailer. Ex - Stade and CuxhafenGermany. 500 lpm single stage pump, 500 liter tank. |
Mercedes / Metz All Terrain Fire Engine. German. 1961. During the bombing campaign of World War II, the German Fire Service found that its two wheel drive fire apparatus often couldn't negotiate bombed out streets. As a response, during the Cold War the Federal Republic's Department of Civil Defense built hundreds of engines like this on the chassis of the German Army's tactical vehicle, the Mercedes "Unimog". It's
the smallest of Germany's standard fire engine sizes, with a 300 gallon
water tank, a 300
gpm pump, and an amazingly wide variety of tools, hose, and fittings.
It also tows a trailer equipped with a foam tank for use at
electrical and oil fires. These all-terrain engines were given to
volunteer departments for everyday use. If war came to Germany, the
volunteers were automatically drafted for service with the German Army.
This rig spent its 24 year working life in the northwest German
towns of Stade and Cuxhafen. It has a V-6 gasoline engine and a
three range all wheel drive manual transmission, oversize wheels, a forty
gallon fuel tank, and escape hatch, and fording gear that will allow it to
operate in up to six feet of water. |
