Vintage Fire Trucks

A Detroit engine pumps during the 1967 riots.

 

That pumper looks like it hit something because it looks like the front sheet metal's pushed in and the windshield isn't there.

 

This is Station 1, Everett, WA, in the 1920s, and as it is now, at the corner of Oakes and California Avenues. It's no longer an active station,just used now for admin and historical apparatus and gear storage. At the other firehouses, a single apparatus is displayed, including the city's original horse-drawn Christie pumper, as well as other rigs from over the decades.

 

Wow. To actually buy a fire engine powered by a Metropolitan. The town must've been either cheap or destitute.

 

https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/03/08/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1960-nash-metropolitan/

We’ve seen these sorts of hook-and-ladder conversions – meant primarily to ferry kids around amusement parks in the 1950s and 1960s – on Crosleys before, but this is the first one we’ve seen based on a Metro. The seller of this 1960 Metropolitanhasn’t yet included a description of it, but from the photos, we can see that it was built by Overland Amusements of Lexington, Massachusetts (which also converted Crosleys into amusement park fire trucks), and that it served the Storyland amusement park in Bushkill, Pennsylvania. Gotta wonder if Overland converted any other diminutive cars into fire trucks

 

A Chicago tiller sets up on the International Harvester Works fire in the 1970's.