More Columbia info:
1981 Hahn 84/Snorkel, canopy cab, 1500/500, 55 ft rear-mount snorkel, model HCP-15S, delivered 4/22/81, Detroit diesel, automatic, 6KW Onan generator. Replaced in 2004 with the Mack CF/Baker scope. On 2/13/05 it was sold to the East Fallowfield Twp. FC (Crawford County, PA).
1969 Hahn 78, Cincinnati canopy cab, 1000/500, model C-10-87, originally delivered 7/30/69 to Friendship of Royersford (Montgomery County, PA), Wakasha gas motor, 5-speed manual transmission, sold to Columbia in 1986 for $21,000. It was traded in to Glick Fire Equipment in 1990 who in turn sold it to Turbotville (Northumberland County, PA) through Northeast Fire Apparatus. Turbotville never put the truck into service and sold it to the Williamsport Bureau of Fire (Lycoming County, PA) where it was repainted all red and the engine was replaced with a 6V71 Detroit diesel, ran as Engine-2 as a reserve piece. Sold by Williamsport in 1999 to an individual who in turn sold it in 2000 to the Hillsgrove Fire Company (Sullivan County, PA). By 2005 owned by an individual in Lock Haven, PA – sold on E-Bay on 6/13 for $1,777.
1968 Ford C850/Hahn, full cab, 250/750, model HCBP-27, delivered 4/12/68, tranverse walkway between cab and body, Hale 4-stage high-pressure pump only, no volume pump, repainted 2/75. It was donated to Beaverdale (Northumberland County, PA) on 4/1/95, but never placed into service. It was sold to a local coal company.
1981 Hahn 84/Snorkel, canopy cab, 1500/500, 55 ft rear-mount snorkel, model HCP-15S, delivered 4/22/81, Detroit diesel, automatic, 6KW Onan generator. Replaced in 2004 with the Mack CF/Baker scope. On 2/13/05 it was sold to the East Fallowfield Twp. FC (Crawford County, PA).
1969 Hahn 78, Cincinnati canopy cab, 1000/500, model C-10-87, originally delivered 7/30/69 to Friendship of Royersford (Montgomery County, PA), Wakasha gas motor, 5-speed manual transmission, sold to Columbia in 1986 for $21,000. It was traded in to Glick Fire Equipment in 1990 who in turn sold it to Turbotville (Northumberland County, PA) through Northeast Fire Apparatus. Turbotville never put the truck into service and sold it to the Williamsport Bureau of Fire (Lycoming County, PA) where it was repainted all red and the engine was replaced with a 6V71 Detroit diesel, ran as Engine-2 as a reserve piece. Sold by Williamsport in 1999 to an individual who in turn sold it in 2000 to the Hillsgrove Fire Company (Sullivan County, PA). By 2005 owned by an individual in Lock Haven, PA – sold on E-Bay on 6/13 for $1,777.
1968 Ford C850/Hahn, full cab, 250/750, model HCBP-27, delivered 4/12/68, tranverse walkway between cab and body, Hale 4-stage high-pressure pump only, no volume pump, repainted 2/75. It was donated to Beaverdale (Northumberland County, PA) on 4/1/95, but never placed into service. It was sold to a local coal company.
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
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