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The Nashua, NH Public Works Department has a fleet of CNG powered Mack "LE" side loader waste trucks. The bodies are built by McNeilus. They also have some CNG powered "LE" recycle trucks and one CNG powered "MR" front loader. The city is into CNG big time. bulldogboy

Congratulations and best wishes to the whole family. Hope that Mom is feeling better. I have a granddaughter; little girls are a lot of fun. bulldogboy

That article about what happened to the Super Pumper reads like it was taken from John A. Calderone's book, "The F.D.N.Y. Super Pumper System". bulldogboy P.S. A Super Pumper T-shirt? Love to have one of those.

Irvington, NJ Fire Department's website shows three "L" model fire engines, two red and one white. The white one was a 1952 but it was all white including the grill. This could be the same one with the grill repainted. Irvington nicknamed the white one "The Flying Nun" due to its unique homemade roof and hose bed cover. Check out the website for lots of old IFD apparatus photos. bulldogboy

This 1987 Mack "MH"/Swab rescue is now in service with the Penn Township Fire Company in Cumberland County, PA. Specs for Rescue 50 are: 450 GPM, 300 gallon water tank, 30 gallon foam tank. bulldogboy

East Meadow, NY had a rescue truck built on a 1968 Mack "F" model chassis. I think that the "MH" was built by Swab for the Rescue Fire Company of Dauphin County, PA. bulldogboy

This is MADDOG93's 1957 Mack "B" model pumper when it was in service in Alexandria, NH in the late 1990s. It was replaced in 1998 by a 1998 IH/Valley pumper/tanker. The new engine is probably more efficient for a small, rural community but it will never have the class of a "B" model. AVFD photo. bulldogboy

The passenger trams at Hollywood Studios, Disney World, FL are pulled by a fleet of red Ford "Cargos". bulldogboy

Looks like a convention of red Ford "F-150"s. There were a lot more than these in the parking lots. bulldogboy

You gave them enough pressure until the nozzle man came off the ground and then you backed off a little. Friction loss was calculated on 5 pounds per year that you were on the job. Somehow it all worked out. We only had an incoming pressure gauge and one pump pressure gauge. We had to wait for the new fangled "CF"s to get individual gauges. bulldogboy

Congratulations, perseverance pays off, hopefully. I used to drive a "C" model aerial ladder. Nice truck; had a few "big ones" with it. bulldogboy

When I started my career as a firefighter we had a crew cab "L" model similar to the one in the video. I operated it many times; it was a great truck. Where are these trucks now? bulldogboy

Back in the early '80s I had a part time job at a freight forwarder. They had two medium trucks, a Mack "MS-200" and a M-B "L-1316". The M-B had an automatic transmission and was underpowered. It did have a very roomy interior. Whenever I drove it I would think to myself, "This is what driving a whale must be like if one could drive a whale." In my full time job as a firefighter I was around Macks all the time so I was partial to the "MS". bulldogboy

The "E" series is being replaced in 2014 with a new Transit van. It will be offered in various roof heights, wheelbases,and models; van, wagon, chassis cab, and cut-away. There will be a diesel option, a 3.2L, I-5 Powerstroke. Not sure if there will be an ambulance package offered. I have read that the "E" series will still be available as a chassis cab and cut-away until the end of the decade. In my area, AMR Ambulance is still buying new "E" models so I assume that they have the V-10 gas engines. bulldogboy

pavrguy3: Thanks for the info about the East Kingston Mack. I will have to ask around about it. Where is your Mack from? I go to the Fire Wardens' meeting in New Boston every July. bulldogboy

Durham, NH's Mack "B" model pumper was sold and is privately owned. The last time that I saw a picture of it, it was still a pumper not a tanker. Durham, at one time, did have a tractor trailer tanker with a "B" model tractor. Both "B"s served together in the 1970s when it was still the Durham-UNH Fire Department. Both Chester, NH and East Kingston, NH had "B" models but I don't know if they were pumpers or tankers or where they came from. Sure would have like to have seen them back in the day (other than seeing them parked in the stations when I drove by). bulldogboy

Golden's Bridge also had a 1960s Mack "C" model pumper. It was featured in an ad back in the '70s. The ad was for a warning light company (Whelen?). I wonder if the "C" is still around. The '68 must have been rehabbed; it has the chrome grill, in '68 it would have had the chrome strips. bulldogboy

Additional information on several companies mentioned earlier: Blue Line Express - Nashua, NH - was all over the place on trucks, Macks, Fords, Whites, the Whites were the round cab models (3000?). Out of business more than 30 years. St. Germaine Trucking (SGT) - Quebec - now seems to be running KW BFI - now A/W. The Tyngsborough, MA yard is full of "MR" and "LE" packers. A few IH trucks, also Cumberland Farms - now running Volvos A few obscure Nashua, NH companies from the 1950s: Cities Transportation was a small fuel hauler with a couple of "B" model tractors Round Pond Oil Company had two fuel oil tankers, one "B" and one "A" model bulldogboy

I believe that was Mack engines and tower ladders. The aerial ladders were Seagrave. bulldogboy

Braun's Express and its sister company, Normandin Transportation Systems of Hopedale, MA run a fleet of Vision tractors and Vision straight trucks. bulldogboy

Nashua Motor Express, Nashua, NH ran a fleet of "R" and "U" tractors. It went out of business in 2013. N & B (Northampton/Boston) Express, Deerfield, MA ran a fleet of "R" tractors. Also out of business. bulldogboy

Charlie: Interesting history of your "BB". That's a subject for a new Mack fire apparatus book, Mack fire trucks that had a civilian career before they became firefighters. Forty years ago Wilton, NH had a "B" model tanker that was donated by a fuel company. bulldogboy

BSP Transportation is an air freight forwarder in New Hampshire. Back in the '80s they ran a fleet of Mack "MS" straight trucks and "MS" tractors plus a couple of "U" model tractors. It is still in business but I only see an IH straight truck around every so often. bulldogboy

Yep, stopped there in 1998. It's in Vinita, OK on I-44. At the time it was supposed to be thelargest McDonald's in the world. bulldogboy

Back in the '80s several former Long Island Mack "B" and "C" model fire trucks were sold to volunteer fire departments in New Hampshire. One was a 1965 "C" model ladder truck that was sold to Hopkinton, NH. It was a straight truck with a semi-cab. HFD later found an old "C" model pumper, cut the roof off, and added it to their ladder truck. I'm not sure if they also used the windshield from the pumper; I saw the pumper later at Dick Kemp's in Hillsborough and the roof and windshield were missing. A "C" model semi-cab can be made into a canopy (crew) cab because it already has the jump seats. An semi-cab "L" or "B" model can only be made into a coupe cab because it would not have rear seats. I have never seen a semi, crew cab, "E", "B", or "L" model. bulldogboy