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Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/luxhello.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Thanks Marshall and Rusty for filling out a great story! That's pretty much what I had read a few years ago in a huge soft-cover book about Bethesda that was done by the local historical society. I knew about their former quarters on Fairmont AVE., but since I have not been in downtown Bethesda since 1994, I was unaware that all the old stations were gone. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banghead.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Warren Jenkins
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
[quote name='npfd801' post='132762' date='Jul 24 2007, 15:11 ']Is the center bar off center? I think you just see a part of one of smaller bars placed 90 degrees to the main bar on each side of the cab roof, which looks like part of the main light bar because the brow light is blocking the gap between them.[/quote]
That is exactly what it is. I had to look at it again myself.
Montgomery County MD - fl ron - 07-24-2007
Ron - if you're reading this, I read your e-mail and will get back to you. Unfortunately I don't read my home e-mail much anymore, but I will reply.
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Thanks Neal.
Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
[quote name='rjtoc2' post='132761' date='Jul 24 2007, 15:10 ']Is this design in "full production" now or is this one going to be a prototype that subsequent apparatus of this order are critiqued and improved on? I realize that a contract is a contract but is Elite flexible enough to iron out the bugs or something such as where a manufactured pieced of equipment is mounted to satisfy the customer?[/quote]
There have been several changes made pre-delivery and there will be some changes made as the bugs are worked out. They DID however, get this body pictured below, to use as a mock up. A lot of the basic set up and lay out was done on this body, first. It will NOW go back to have changes made and be mounted.
Marshall
Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Dr. Stinebaugh' post='132765' date='Jul 24 2007, 15:29 ']<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/luxhello.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Thanks Marshall and Rusty for filling out a great story! That's pretty much what I had read a few years ago in a huge soft-cover book about Bethesda that was done by the local historical society. I knew about their former quarters on Fairmont AVE., but since I have not been in downtown Bethesda since 1994, I was unaware that all the old stations were gone. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/banghead.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Warren Jenkins[/quote]
The red brick building pictured above is gone. But the old Squad quarters is still there with out the bays. It is an office building now, and MOST of Bethesda downtown are highrises. You may remember the area like this... <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hysterical.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
But it looks more like this...
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Tillerman1664' post='132617' date='Jul 23 2007, 23:19 ']Well Doc, I'm not exactly sure. If I had to take a guess though, it would be this. When Bethesda went paid, I heard a story that some disgruntled volunteers separated and started their own company. I have a picture of that company and they have a Butterfly Hahn. Eventually that company went under. The property became the first BCC, and I want to say that the equipment was sold. It is highly possible that Hahn went to Kensington.
Also, if I'm not mistaking, I apologize if I am, I believe Platform 21 was originally delivered with a gasoline engine and converted to deisel. I'm not 100% on that one; however, I do know this. That picture has the straight across, flat windshield in it. That windshield was eventually modified with a "V" in the center, because the boom used to come down and crush that windshield on a regular basis.
Marshall
(Photographer Unknown)[/quote]
I believe that the Kensington snorkel was delivered, it had a Hall Scott gas engine. Later, when it was repowered with diesel, a part of the frame was cut to accomodate the new engine. That was the beginning of the end for the truck as the frame was never the same.
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Tillerman1664' post='132831' date='Jul 24 2007, 17:28 ']The red brick building pictured above is gone. But the old Squad quarters is still there with out the bays. It is an office building now, and MOST of Bethesda downtown are highrises. You may remember the area like this... <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hysterical.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />[/quote]Now that's a great old fire scene pic! I still see the hi-rises of Bethesda from NIH when occasionally I go there for my employer, but generally I avoid "city" driving. 20 years ago though, my favorite carry-out was Nick's on Cordell Ave.,would sometimes eat 2 meals a day there - great stuff!
Warren Jenkins
Anybody happen to know year, chassis, or bodybuilder for the 1950's BCC rescue squad visible in the pic?
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
This peculiar rig hung around for about 30 years with Silver Spring VFD, it was Air/SU 16, a 1965 Chevy TC chassis with a body supposedly built in the SSVFD shops?
After replacement, it was sold to Oak Grove,VA.
Robert Washburn photo, Jenkins collection
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
Business end of Air 16
9/68 Washburn photo, Jenkins collection
Montgomery County MD - tcosgrovejones - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Dr. Stinebaugh' post='132901' date='Jul 24 2007, 20:44 ']Now that's a great old fire scene pic! I still see the hi-rises of Bethesda from NIH when occasionally I go there for my employer, but generally I avoid "city" driving. 20 years ago though, my favorite carry-out was Nick's on Cordell Ave.,would sometimes eat 2 meals a day there - great stuff!
Warren Jenkins
Anybody happen to know year, chassis, or bodybuilder for the 1950's BCC rescue squad visible in the pic?[/quote]
B-CC Squad was a GMC CHassis I don't know who built the body but I do belive it was sold to Upper Darby Pa.
Cosgr <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/stirpot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
Thanks Cosgrove! I'd like to think it was a Bruco...
Here's a TDA from Silver Spring VFD Trk19 I got to see only a few glimpses of while it was still in service; a 1968 Hahn with a 100' Thibault aerial. I last saw this a couple of years ago on a farm in Adamstown,MD.
Unknown photographer, Jenkins collection
Montgomery County MD - 68mack - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Chadly' post='132759' date='Jul 24 2007, 14:44 ']Im guessing they speced the Lightbar to be off center like it is due to the scene lights on the front of the rig??[/quote]
What you are looking at is the bar above the officers seat. With the ever so slight angle of the shot the drivers side brow light is blocking the drivers side light bar.
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-24-2007
[quote name='Tillerman1664' post='132742' date='Jul 24 2007, 13:40 ']<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_redface.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Um, ok thanks.[/quote]Err, almost. Timberwolfs don't have a big eagle in the grille. Screaming Eagles do. While we're picking nits <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/BananaMan.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
bcc
Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
A true open cab...
This is probably one of my most favorite rigs of all time. It served Damascus, and the last time I saw it, it had a mortar mixer welded to rear of it and it was sitting in a field.
Unknown photographer.
Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
Another from Damascus...
Unknown photographer.
Montgomery County MD - Tillerman1664 - 07-24-2007
Look what I just found in my box of stuff from John Floyd.
Montgomery County MD - Brummel - 07-25-2007
[quote name='mdmodeler' post='104093' date='May 4 2007, 17:44 ']
Possibly the '72 Hahn???[/quote]
You are correct on both posts - 1970 and 1972.
Montgomery County MD - Guest - 07-25-2007
Some good stuff there, Marshall!
Some info; Post #48 Damascus VFD E-133 1956 Chevy chassis with body possibly built from parts off a 1932 Reo engine bought in 1953 from ?
Post#49 Damascus E-134 1954 Ford F/Oren 750/? Unique for the times 4-dr. cab
Both rigs lasted into the 1970's
Post #50 Bethesda/Kensington 1941 Hahn Reg.6410-H Waukesha engine, 500GPM Northern pump
Damascus sure had some unique rigs in their early years...