Keystone State Relics

[Frank B]

Philadelphia maxim

[Frank B]

Philadelphia maxim side view.

Has anyone seen the Maxim thread lately?

I could not find it.

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA 1948 WLF Ford F

Emergency Crew light Wagon



1949 WLF Ford F Chemical Supply Smoke Ejection

Unsure of the photographer,

Believed to be Jack Robrect

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA one of many Auto Car (US Fire Apparatus body)

1950 Auto Car USFA #SS100



Unsure of the photographer,

Believed to be Jack Robrect

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA 1968 Seagrave ladder 16





Philadelphia PA 1970 Seagrave

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA 75 Seagrave

unknown photographer

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA WLF Ford F

light unit WLF demo?

[Frank B]

Philadelphia PA WLF Squirt & WLF engine

Phily had a lawsuit against WLF for the rigs they owned that rusted very badly



Also A company from MD, filed for a TDA with many problems (Hagerstown MD ?)

[Frank B]

Philadelphia White

Vehicle for Chief Engineer

[Frank B]

Phoenixville PA 65 Seagrave

Chester County

unknown photographer

[OPEN CAB MACK]

[quote name='FDNYTRUCKS.com' date='04 January 2011 - 08:41 PM' timestamp='1294190497' post='418552']

the works at Dravosburg is the IRVIN works.



Carnegie Steel Company

Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie to manage business at his steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.



Contents

1 Creation

2 Steel Mills

3 Sale

4 Local competition

5 20th Century Steel Production

6 See also

7 References

8 External links







Creation

Carnegie constructed his first steel mill in the mid-1870s: the profitable Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The profits made by the Edgar Thomson Steel Works were sufficiently great to permit Mr. Carnegie and a number of his associates to purchase other nearby steel mills. In 1892, Carnegie Steel Company was formed. At its peak, the company operated a total of eight steel mills.



Its headquarters was located in the Carnegie Building, an office building in Downtown Pittsburgh[1]. Built to display the use of steel in its construction, the building was fifteen stories high, and was left uncovered for a full year. Located in Pittsburgh, the building stood for 57 years, 1895-1952. Demolition of the Carnegie Building commenced on March 1, 1952.





Steel Mills

Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pennsylvania

15,654 employees in 1900

The first Carnegie free public library built in America is in Braddock

Homestead Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania

12,554 employees in 1900, peak employment of 30,000

A massive plant acquired in 1883

Closed in 1987 and demolished

Currently the site of The Waterfront retail

Mingo Junction, Mingo Junction, Ohio

2,954 employees in 1900

The steel mill was the only manufacturing plant in Mingo Junction in 1900

Duquesne Works, Duquesne, Pennsylvania

It was a modest, but new, plant called Duquesne Steel Company when it was acquired in 1889



Sale

Carnegie Steel Company was sold to the United States Steel Company in 1901. U. S. Steel was a conglomerate with subsidiary companies. The name of the subsidiary company was changed to the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company in 1936.





Local competition

The presence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers provided a way to transport the heavy materials associated with the steel-making industry. Each plant was located close to or alongside a river.



The seed of the company which became its strongest competitor was sown in 1853. Jones, Lauth and Company established puddling furnaces and rolling mills along the Monongahela at a location a couple of miles (roughly four kilometers) away from Pittsburgh. Bernard Lauth invented and patented cold rolling of iron in 1859. In the same year, James Laughlin constructed Laughlin and Company directly across the river from the Jones, Lauth and Company. Over time, the two enterprises became united under the name J&L Steel and installed their first two Bessemer converters for the production of steel in 1886.



J&L Steel became the most important competitor to the Carnegie Steel Company and U. S. Steel in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. In 1905 it began the construction of a new steel mill along the Ohio River twenty miles (32 km) downriver from Pittsburgh at Aliquippa. In 1908, it constructed a new 12-story office building in Pittsburgh.



J&L Steel announced numerous expansions of its operations, including a $250,000,000 expansion for 1955-58. In 1968, Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. of Texas, offered to buy sixty-three percent of J&L Steel, marking the beginning of the end for "big steel" in the Pittsburgh region.





20th Century Steel Production

Changes in the way in which steel is produced had already appeared before the Carnegie Steel Company was sold in 1901. Steel manufacturers had begun to abandon the Bessemer converters and install open-hearth furnaces. Open-hearth furnaces were widely employed until the 1970s when the basic oxygen furnace, electric arc furnace and continuous casting mad[b]e them obsolete. Currently, employment is extraordinarily low at the remaining plants which have been a part of the Carnegie Steel Company since 1900, though in Braddock the J. Edgar Thomson Works is still active, producing hot iron that is shipped up the river to the Irvin Works at Dravosburg to be finished into steel.[/b]

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Excellent history Mike.

[truck1882]

[quote name='Frank B' date='04 January 2011 - 09:58 PM' timestamp='1294195126' post='418568']

Some more photos of the Paxtonia 1951 Pirsch

unknown photographer

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I will bite, the sign on the trailer says a 1948 Pirsch. is it a 1951, 1952, or 1948?

[EMS 12]

I will add to the confusion. My source says it is a 1953



[quote name='truck1882' date='05 January 2011 - 08:13 PM' timestamp='1294275233' post='418754']

I will bite, the sign on the trailer says a 1948 Pirsch. is it a 1951, 1952, or 1948?

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[e290l103]

can anyone confirm that the body is a US Fire Apparatus body?



[quote name='Frank B' date='02 January 2011 - 07:34 PM' timestamp='1294013683' post='418149']

PA Phoenixville 1938 Mack 75EH #1033

Chester County station #65



Mack factory photo

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[e290l103]

are you ready??? its a 1950!

1909 LANCASTER PA Lad 12/5/50 1950 Pirsch 41E 85' TDA 3-sec Alum







[quote name='Frank B' date='04 January 2011 - 09:58 PM' timestamp='1294195126' post='418568']

Some more photos of the Paxtonia 1951 Pirsch

unknown photographer

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[Guest]

[quote name='Frank B' date='04 January 2011 - 09:34 PM' timestamp='1294197298' post='418584']

Philadelphia maxim side view.

Has anyone seen the Maxim thread lately?

I could not find it.

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Maxim thread Bumped....

[EMS 12]

This may be the answer from the Shippensburg FD History site:



On July 10, 1993 at 8:45 a.m. a rescue local was dispatched to Interstate 81 north bound five miles north of exit 10 South Newton Township. Two men were driving a 1951 Pirsch tiller truck from Maryland to Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania Pump Primers muster when the drive shaft broke puncturing hydraulic lines and spraying fluid onto the exhaust header. The truck burst into flames causing the tiller man to jump from the rig. The driver steered the truck into the median strip and over a concrete culvert causing the driver to be ejected from the cab and thrown under the wheels of the tractor. The vehicle came to rest off the road, well involved in flames. The driver S. Eric Russell, 33 was pronounced dead at the scene. The tiller man Jeffrey Jenkins, 27 was taken to Chambersburg Hospital and later transferred to Francis Scott Key Burn Center in Baltimore in serious condition. This truck served at Paxtonia Fire Co., Lower Paxon Twp. Paxtonia purchased the truck from Lancaster City.Responding to the accident was the Penn Twp., South Newton Twp., Newville, Vigilant Hose and West End Fire and Rescue companies.





[quote name='truck1882' date='05 January 2011 - 08:13 PM' timestamp='1294275233' post='418754']

I will bite, the sign on the trailer says a 1948 Pirsch. is it a 1951, 1952, or 1948?

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[BA000049]

[quote name='Frank B' date='02 January 2011 - 07:34 PM' timestamp='1294013683' post='418149']

PA Phoenixville 1938 Mack 75EH #1033

Chester County station #65



Mack factory photo

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Mike,



You are correct.



Bruce



1938 Mack Type MDL-75/U.S. Fire Apparatus, full cab with contoured roof, 750/150, cost $8,500 new, 6 cylinder gas motor, manual transmission, delvd 10/28/38, Hale pump, placed into service on 11/5/38, housed 9/16/39. The company held on to it till the mid 1980's when they sold it to a private individual – possible co. member – in 2000 sitting in local garage in bad shape.

[e290l103]

Thank you Bruce! here is a color shot I saved off one of the threads here of that rig. Its a one of a kind rig, hopefully it hasnt been scrapped.



[quote name='BA000049' date='06 January 2011 - 08:51 AM' timestamp='1294320660' post='418832']

Mike,



You are correct.



Bruce



1938 Mack Type MDL-75/U.S. Fire Apparatus, full cab with contoured roof, 750/150, cost $8,500 new, 6 cylinder gas motor, manual transmission, delvd 10/28/38, Hale pump, placed into service on 11/5/38, housed 9/16/39. The company held on to it till the mid 1980's when they sold it to a private individual – possible co. member – in 2000 sitting in local garage in bad shape.

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[Richard_L_Dean_07405]

[quote name='theunknowncomic' date='01 January 2011 - 02:58 PM' timestamp='1293907104' post='417837']

it was sold to montrose,pa(susquehanna,county) in 1998,montrose replaced it 2 years ago.

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BTW, anyone who is ever in Montrose and has a chance to visit the United Fire Company's great little museum don't pass it up. They have a lot of artifacts including some horse drawn equipment inside a former Victorian era house attached to their firehouse.