[quote name='GA_Dave' date='04 September 2010 - 12:11 PM' timestamp='1283615495' post='401016']
Does anyone know what the third rig destroyed was? Anyone have pics of it? Just curious. It's a shame when vintage rigs like these are suddenly gone. I feel fortunate to have photos of the Hahn and Mack.
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Dave,
From what I am hearing, only two fire apparatus were lost. They are both ex. Collingdale #1 rigs. Please see below.
Bruce
1947 Mack L-85, 3-door sedan cab, 750/185. It cost $15,000, one of the first sedan cabs in the county, bench seat in cab canopy accessed through walkway splitting hose bed, booster reel in open compartment on rear step, 707 CI Mack gas motor, 5-speed manual transmission, delvd 9-47, housed 10-4-47, booster reel in open compart on rear step, Hale pump, replaced 1921 Amer LaFr pumper, in 1970 sold to Fred Tattersall-Aldan,PA, in 1981 purchased by George Kaiser-Collingdale auto repair garage proprietor and collector.
1970 Hahn 78, Cincinnati canopy cab, 1000/300, model C-10, 6V71 Detroit diesel, automatic, delivered 3-25-70, housed 9/12/70. Purchased by George Kaiser in 09/03.
Does anyone know what the third rig destroyed was? Anyone have pics of it? Just curious. It's a shame when vintage rigs like these are suddenly gone. I feel fortunate to have photos of the Hahn and Mack.
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Dave,
From what I am hearing, only two fire apparatus were lost. They are both ex. Collingdale #1 rigs. Please see below.
Bruce
1947 Mack L-85, 3-door sedan cab, 750/185. It cost $15,000, one of the first sedan cabs in the county, bench seat in cab canopy accessed through walkway splitting hose bed, booster reel in open compartment on rear step, 707 CI Mack gas motor, 5-speed manual transmission, delvd 9-47, housed 10-4-47, booster reel in open compart on rear step, Hale pump, replaced 1921 Amer LaFr pumper, in 1970 sold to Fred Tattersall-Aldan,PA, in 1981 purchased by George Kaiser-Collingdale auto repair garage proprietor and collector.
1970 Hahn 78, Cincinnati canopy cab, 1000/300, model C-10, 6V71 Detroit diesel, automatic, delivered 3-25-70, housed 9/12/70. Purchased by George Kaiser in 09/03.
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region