<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />-->QUOTE(Frank B @ May 22 2007, 23:57 ) [post="111154"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]<div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ardmore Mack B Tractor Drawn Aerial
Bill Witt collection[/quote]
Frank- additional info:
1929 Mack B-series Type 19 85 ft wood stick. This was one of the first deliveries of this model ladder. It was all powered and featured a lower profile than previously offered ladders. The main was raised from power supplied by the truck's motor. Ironically this accounted for its demise. In 1952 it was sold to Rockledge (Montgomery Co.),PA. It never had a windshield. Rockledge had an annual 4th of July parade. After the parade this truck was parked and was the target of kids of the community who climbed all over it. They managed to unknowingly activate the system which would cause the locked ladder to raise once the truck was started. Rockledge firemen later were enroute to nearby Huntington Valley where the ladder was to be raised and a peanut scramble was to ensue. Of course they were unaware of the ladder activation. While enroute the ladder was attempting to raise. It eventally buckled the trailer, overturned the truck and it crashed and it was demolished. Earlier in its life at Merion FC-Ardmore (Montgomery Co.),PA, the end of the main was broken while attempting to rescue a French poddle from Haverford College pond. This had been mended with a metal attachment.
Bill Witt collection[/quote]
Frank- additional info:
1929 Mack B-series Type 19 85 ft wood stick. This was one of the first deliveries of this model ladder. It was all powered and featured a lower profile than previously offered ladders. The main was raised from power supplied by the truck's motor. Ironically this accounted for its demise. In 1952 it was sold to Rockledge (Montgomery Co.),PA. It never had a windshield. Rockledge had an annual 4th of July parade. After the parade this truck was parked and was the target of kids of the community who climbed all over it. They managed to unknowingly activate the system which would cause the locked ladder to raise once the truck was started. Rockledge firemen later were enroute to nearby Huntington Valley where the ladder was to be raised and a peanut scramble was to ensue. Of course they were unaware of the ladder activation. While enroute the ladder was attempting to raise. It eventally buckled the trailer, overturned the truck and it crashed and it was demolished. Earlier in its life at Merion FC-Ardmore (Montgomery Co.),PA, the end of the main was broken while attempting to rescue a French poddle from Haverford College pond. This had been mended with a metal attachment.
Facebook
Google
Reddit
Twitter