[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1317503145' post='458706']Here's a few more from the "Muster Box". I may have posted this before. This image shows a Chevy pumper lettered for Hershey, PA. The notes say that this rig is Downingtown, PA. Maybe chatter between private owners. Jim Burner pic/Mattson Collection <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/usa.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Scott,
Somehow this one slipped by me. Will you ever forgive me.
Interesting history on it. See below.
Bruce
1940 Chevrolet field piece, full cab, 200/150, Hale HHB rotary pump, possible Hale body, purchased used from the Radnor Fire Company (Delaware County, PA) on 3/29/55 for $1,000 by the Alert Fire Company of Downingtown (Chester County, PA). It was sold by Alert in 1970 to Bill Harrison of East Erandywine Township who was a used car dealer. Mr. Harrison took the truck to the Manhiem Auto Auction to be resold. It went through at least four private collectors after it left Alert. One of the last of which was Hope Emerich of Hershey, PA. She bought it out of a junk yard and painted it with Hershey on the door. It was never in the Hershey FD. By 1994 it was owned by Bruce Stegner & Herb Barber of Franklin Square, NY. They repainted it.
' /> [/quote]Scott,
Somehow this one slipped by me. Will you ever forgive me.
Interesting history on it. See below.
Bruce
1940 Chevrolet field piece, full cab, 200/150, Hale HHB rotary pump, possible Hale body, purchased used from the Radnor Fire Company (Delaware County, PA) on 3/29/55 for $1,000 by the Alert Fire Company of Downingtown (Chester County, PA). It was sold by Alert in 1970 to Bill Harrison of East Erandywine Township who was a used car dealer. Mr. Harrison took the truck to the Manhiem Auto Auction to be resold. It went through at least four private collectors after it left Alert. One of the last of which was Hope Emerich of Hershey, PA. She bought it out of a junk yard and painted it with Hershey on the door. It was never in the Hershey FD. By 1994 it was owned by Bruce Stegner & Herb Barber of Franklin Square, NY. They repainted it.
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
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