[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1320609469' post='462888']Reading, PA had this open-cab IH snorkel which I bhave no information on. Looks like an interesting piece so, I hope someone like Bruce Anderson or anyone else can help identify. Wish it was a better image. 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,
Of course I can help you with this one. Info from Al Powell's files.
Bruce
1968 Intl CO-8190/Pirsch, Cincinnati semi-cab forward, 75 ft Snorkel articulated boom, boom painted white, in 1986 rehabed by KME-included new custom angular canopy cab with half safety doors-re-painted RW repowered-refurbished, ser.no.PK03, order entered 4-19-67, dedicated 5-25-68-pinback with photo available,
purchased through Glenn D.Culbert Co.Inc.-College Park,MD, on 1-12-83 collided with 1963 Diamond-T/Hahn at 11th and Elm Sts while responding to false alarm at St.Joseph’s Hospital-extensively damaged-KME repaired-replaced cab and some cabinet work and boom repaired, on 1-28-85 one of first units to arrive at YMCA fire at 635 Washington St where fire fighter and 3 residents perished, in 2000 one of last pieces left lettered for fire co.-Reading Hose No.1-in the city FD, in 2002 involved in accident-repaired and repainted by KME, in 2003 failed re-certification due to small cracks in bucket-considered scraping but decided to repair and place in reserve-replaced by Tower 1, in 2007 out for repairs at Campbell Supply Co.-stationed at Riverside-Schuylkill
' /> [/quote]Scott,
Of course I can help you with this one. Info from Al Powell's files.
Bruce
1968 Intl CO-8190/Pirsch, Cincinnati semi-cab forward, 75 ft Snorkel articulated boom, boom painted white, in 1986 rehabed by KME-included new custom angular canopy cab with half safety doors-re-painted RW repowered-refurbished, ser.no.PK03, order entered 4-19-67, dedicated 5-25-68-pinback with photo available,
purchased through Glenn D.Culbert Co.Inc.-College Park,MD, on 1-12-83 collided with 1963 Diamond-T/Hahn at 11th and Elm Sts while responding to false alarm at St.Joseph’s Hospital-extensively damaged-KME repaired-replaced cab and some cabinet work and boom repaired, on 1-28-85 one of first units to arrive at YMCA fire at 635 Washington St where fire fighter and 3 residents perished, in 2000 one of last pieces left lettered for fire co.-Reading Hose No.1-in the city FD, in 2002 involved in accident-repaired and repainted by KME, in 2003 failed re-certification due to small cracks in bucket-considered scraping but decided to repair and place in reserve-replaced by Tower 1, in 2007 out for repairs at Campbell Supply Co.-stationed at Riverside-Schuylkill
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
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