Syracuse, New York

[Guest]

Here is a shot of Rescue 1 taken in August 1977 when a few of us bunked in as guests of the SFD.

 

Chief, I recall at the time of our visit the SFD was testing remote control on one or more of Hendrickson-Pierce Telesqurt engines.  We had a demo of it.   I recall the officer had what looked a like a portable radio with buttons to increase or decrease engine speed and hence pump pressure.  I also recall the discharge valves had remote control with servo-motors and were controlled from the hand held device.  I also vaguely remember the 1.75 in. discharges were color coded and each had its respective remote control hand held device.  Is my memory failing me on some of the details?  How long did Chief Hanlon's experiment last and was it on all the engines?

 

Thanks

 

Ian Stronach

Montreal, Quebec 

 

 

If you have anything else from Syracuse, Ian, please don't hesitate to post them!  Great to see rigs from that era!  Thank you!