Popular Post kmeitz Posted June 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2013 Ex Philadelphia Steam Fire Engine Company(The Phillies) Pottstown PA. 1976 Mack MB 4 Quote Keith http://www.flickr.com/photos/40978025@N04/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmeitz Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 Nice article on the ongoing restoration of Reading's 1959 Mack-Maxim B85F 85-foot street aerial ladderhttp://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=489820 Quote Keith http://www.flickr.com/photos/40978025@N04/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarnall Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I'm the collector who owned that B85 breifly. If anyone wants a truck like it, I have one for sale and one not for sale. The MB from Pottstown was bought and donated to Pottstown Parks and Rec and is used to water trees. They tried to sell it to me, but I turned them down. Here are two Pennsylvania Macks from my gallery, the first from Steelton and the second from Haririsburg:http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/gallery/album/1041-my-macks/. And here are two more. Both originally served Boyertown and were sold separately to Summit Station. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/gallery/image/10999-macungie-2012/. A 1951 405A and a 1947 LS85.Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loadstar Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Nice article on the ongoing restoration of Reading's 1959 Mack-Maxim B85F 85-foot street aerial ladderhttp://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=489820 Nice story...I wonder why they sold the tractor and the ladder separate? You would think someone would have bought the whole truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogboy Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Lucky for them (and us) that they were able to get both sections back. Good luck with the restoration. Many departments would like to get a former truck back with no success. bulldogboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
609albert Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 yarnall ,I talked to you at Macungie last month, hope you can bring some of your apparatus to the national muster in Pennsauken /cherry hill n.j. ,I'll have our 54 LS their Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarnall Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I was told they were going to make a wrecker out of it and lost interest. It sat in a garage along a stone wall for a long time rusting. I had bought a B85 for parts and when I changed the title I asked the garage foreman who signed the title if they had any other macks around. He told me about that one. The chief had forgotten about it. The chief took me to see it and when we entered the garage he pointed to a Hamerly and told me I should buy that too so I did. The guys who are restoring it found out I bought the Mack and tried to buy it. I don't remember how, but they made me made and I didn't call them back for a while. When I did they had bought the ladder out of the junk yard and had bought the Lowell tractor that I am trying to sell. I traded them my tractor for their tractor. They got the better truck because it was more complete, less rusty and had a title, but I knew they were going to work on it. I haven't done anything with the Lowell tractor. I will have the AC and something else at Cherry Hill, but have not decided what. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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