bulldogboy

Semi-cab Ford "C" models were rare; that was about the time that manufacturers and fire departments were getting away from open and semi-cab trucks. There was one

Mack "N" model fire truck with a semi-cab, the only Mack "N" model ladder truck built, delivered to Marcus Hook, PA in 1962. It had a 750 GPM pump and a 75' Maxim ladder.

Unfortunately, in the early '80s the Mack cab was replaced with an IHC "Cargostar" cab. 

fxfymn:

How's the 1925 'AB' fire truck coming along?

                    bulldogboy

I've posted this on another thread; the photo is Alexandria, NH's former Mack "B-95F" pumper. The photo was taken around 1998 when Alexandria replaced this engine with a

1998 IHC/Valley pumper/tanker. The chief at the time said that they would liked to have kept the Mack but needed the FWD due to its all wheel drive capability. Alexandria

is the second largest community in land area in New Hampshire and is very rural and hilly. Alexandria Volunteer Fire Department photo.

                                 bulldogboy

Red Horse:

Was that "nameless" Cape fire truck a chrome yellow "R" model? 

               bulldogboy

The Mack "N" model shared the  Budd cab with the Ford "C" model. Perhaps this is how Mack will get back in the medium business, share the "F" series cab.

               bulldogboy

Joe:

There is a nice "F" model tanker in Lorida, FL near Sebring, I think that it once belonged to West Sebring, FL. If you bid on the Pennington truck you could use the Lorida

truck as a model. Or, you could keep it as a rescue truck, maybe as a regional rescue team with other departments in your area.

               bulldogboy

Winchester, NH Fire Department also had a Mack "A" model fire truck, Engine 6. I don't know if they still have that one.

          bulldogboy

Bolton, MA Engine 5, 1981 Mack "R"/Moody, 500/2100. Edward G. Moody and Son of Nashua, NH was a builder of oil tankers primarily but they also built quite a few

fire trucks, mostly tankers. They went out of business in the early '80s so Bolton's truck is probably one of the few Moodys still in service. Bolton had a fleet of Macks

at one time: a 1969 Mack "R" pumper, a 1975 "MB", 1000/750 pumper, and a 1945 Type "45" pumper. Back in the early '70s there were a lot of musters in the

Nashoba valley and I remember the Bolton team's shirts had a picture of the '45 on them. I  go down I-495 quite a bit, going through Bolton. occasionally stopping

at the convenience store at Exit 27.

Red Horse, thanks for the photos.

               bulldogboy

On 10/17/2015 at 8:45 PM, 41chevy said:

NY Port Authority Tunnel wrecker / fire suppression Unit. 97 inch wheelbase

 There used to be a similar "MC" wrecker/fire truck stationed at the rest area on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in MD/VA. It may still be there, I haven't been down that way in

ten years. I also drove an "MB" fire truck, a bare bones, shaky, little thing.

                                               bulldogboy

        Nashua, NH Fire Department, CFR-1, 2008 Ford F-550/CET, 500 gallons AFFF/ATC.

                                     bulldogboy

    Nashua, NH Fire Department's Engine 8 and Engine 9 in 1977.

    Engine 9 - 1947 Mack "L95F", 1000/200

    Engine 8 - 1962 Mack "B95F", 1000/500

                  bulldogboy

Red Horse:

Just my two cents on these topics:

1. The way I understand it is that the Homeland Security Grants were originally intended for areas that were most prone to terrorist attacks after 9/11. But, as these things usually

     turn out, other places wanted their share too so the program was extended to everybody. I know of small towns in the middle of no place that received money for fire tankers

     and other gear not related to security threats. They have become Assistance to Firefighter grants.

2.  Mini-pumpers have their place and, like every other tool, should be used as intended. In New Hampshire they are used in smaller communities as first run vehicles for EMS and

     to access narrow country roads and long, winding driveways. There are some really nice units around but they are not intended to replace full size pumpers.

3.  Boston EMS has long used ambulances mounted on GMC 5500 chassis but when GMC got out of the medium business, Boston switched to IHC "TerraStar" chassis. Interestingly,

     Boston recently ordered 12 new Braun ambulances to be mounted on Ford F-450 chassis.

4. Interesting little uproar in Springfield Township, OH, home to the Navistar manufacturing plant. Seems that the local fire department ordered a new ambulance to be built on a

    Dodge chassis rather than an IHC chassis. Navistar is not too pleased and made it known that the Dodge is built in Mexico.

5. Do you have any pictures of your town's R-600 pumper?

6. Why does this type out double spaced? Takes up more room than necessary.

                                bulldogboy

I like that Kingsport ladder; I also saw that "U" model badge on the cab. I wonder what was in that space on the bumper on the Columbus "CF" tractor? Looks like something was

removed, a compartment of some sort? Kind of a different location for that light bar on the tractor.

                         bulldogboy

Wow, that will give the safety guys a lot of sleepless nights. I always thought it unusual that some fire trucks carried a spare tire, I've seen pictures of FDNY  Mack "Type 21" models

with a spare tire. Did they expect the guys to stop on the side of Broadway and change their own tire? I can see me with one of my department's Mack "L" models trying to change

a tire by myself (one man crew); thank goodness for the department mechanics.

            bulldogboy

        Looks like they had a few "C" model fire cabs also.

                          bulldogboy

A couple of recent visitors to New Hampshire:

1. Mack tractor from Braun's Express, Hopedale, MA. Braun's is an all Mack fleet and runs the east coast from New England to Georgia. Not long ago Braun's and its

    affiliated company, NTS, Normandin Transportation System were featured in "Bulldog" magazine.

2. Pine State Trading Company from Gardiner, ME supplies convenience stores throughout New England. Most of their trucks that I have seen are Internationals and

    Chevrolet vans. This is the first Mack that I have seen.

                                bulldogboy

This is a USAF 750A structural pumper; they were built in the mid-fifties. Built by Ward LaFrance they were way ahead of their time with a four door, fully enclosed

cab and a body with full compartments. Even the ladders and hard suction hoses were carried in boxes on either side on the top of the compartments.

Like this particular truck some bases removed the ladder and hose boxes in order to access them faster. When I was in the Air National Guard we had a 750A

and the regular air force had one 750A and one 530B which was built on a military chassis. Most 530Bs were built by Firemaster Corporation but ours was

built by Ward LaFrance. That was the entire structural compliment for the base, everything else was crash rescue plus a tanker. I liked operating the 750A; it

was unique.

         bulldogboy

Not to nitpick but the Yuengling Brewery is in Pottsville, PA, not Pottstown. I don't want anyone going to Pottstown and spending all day looking for

Yuengling, unless you want to pick up 400 cases at the nearest WAWA.

                 bulldogboy

Loadstar:

Thanks, I was away for a while and missed a lot of good stuff, especially fire apparatus. I'm quickly catching up on all I missed.  I always liked that unusual Mack TDA  from

Gloucester, MA. It is a 1966 "B" that pulled a Pirsch ladder. In 1985, Gloucester replaced the Pirsch trailer with an LTI 106' ladder and trailer. Most times departments would

keep the ladder and replace the tractor with a new one. Gloucester ended up with an unusual looking "B"  model semi-cab tractor hauling around a newer, fully

compartmentalized trailer. It was replaced in 2009 with a Pierce rear mount ladder. I'm glad to see that it is still around at the shows.

             bulldogboy

I believe that a "life gun" was a rescue rope that was fired by rifle looking projector with a firing cartridge. The purpose was to fire a coiled rope across a river or

wherever it was needed. When I started my fire career one of our ladder trucks carried one but like a lot of the old equipment we had it was just there and I never 

saw it used in training or in an emergency.

  bulldogboy

A couple of photos that I took at the Fire Museum of Maryland in 2008. I was lucky that I was there on a day that they were having an outside show and demonstration.

The first is a Mack "AB" paddy wagon and the second is FMM's Mack "AC" pumper drafting from a drop tank. Like fxfymn says, the Fire Museum of Maryland is well

worth visiting.

bulldogboy

The "L" model Mack is a 1942 model, one of two Macks sold to the U.S. Navy and sent to the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Hingham, MA. After the war this particular

Mack was sold to the Paxton, MA Fire Department where it was Engine 3. It later found its way to the Rhode Island SPAAMFAA group who did a complete

restoration. The twin Mack was sold to the Boston,MA Fire Department where it was assigned to Engine 54 at the Long Island Hospital fire brigade. I don't know

what happened to it after Boston.

bulldogboy

Acton, MA's ladder is a 2009 Pierce Arrow XT tower. In addition to the ladder they had an engine out of service for repair and last week their

2001 HME/Ferrara engine was involved in a collision with an automobile at an intersection. For now they are borrowing an E-One engine

from the Concord, MA Fire Department.. Hopefully, their bad luck has ended for a while.

bulldogboy