Duane Troxel shot the entire St. Louis Fire Department in the summer of 1976, just before the department switched over to lime-yellow fire apparatus. Last fall I began back scanning all of Duane’s slides from his St. Louis trip for a future posting on firepics.
My best friend, Paige Van Vorst, and I had also shot most of the St. Louis Fire Department in the fall of 1965. Both of us were only shooting black & white film at that time as we were both just out of high school and B&W was all we could afford. As we did photograph a fair number of St.LFD apparatus pieces that were long gone by the time Duane took his slides in 1976, I decided to also scan my 35mm black & white negatives from that 1965 trip of rigs Duane missed.
Using both Duane’s slides from 1976 and our black & white images from 1965 should allow me to post most all of the St. Louis FD fire apparatus purchased between 1939 and 1976. I’ll post Duane’s slide images for each year unless it is a rig that he didn’t get to shoot in 1976. I’m sorry, but much of the reserve apparatus that we shot in 1965 were all indoor shots. Without these indoor shots however, we would be missing some interesting rigs.
I’d like to thank firepixer Dennis Maag for his help with the StLFD company assignments and StLFD apparatus numbers. Dennis also helped figure out the info on some of the General and Central manufactured apparatus from the 30s and 40s. There will probably be some errors, some from typos (I do that a lot), and others where I read the wrong info and post it (done that many times before also). Please feel free to correct and errors you may see.
I’ll start posting the StLFD apparatus by year starting with 1939. I’d like to ask others wishing to post additional photos to wait until the year they fit in so that we will have a fairly chronological thread of StLFD apparartus.
St. Louis 1939 Chevrolet/Central 500 GPM pumper which was being used as a syphon rig in 1965. I was told by Dennis Magg that this rig came into the St. Louis FD when they took over fire protection at Lambert Field (now St. Louis International Airport). Dennis said they used this to pump out basements of fire buildings and buildings flooded during heavy storms or flooding conditions. Note all the suction hose loaded in the hose body.
-1965 Photo by Steve Skaar
My best friend, Paige Van Vorst, and I had also shot most of the St. Louis Fire Department in the fall of 1965. Both of us were only shooting black & white film at that time as we were both just out of high school and B&W was all we could afford. As we did photograph a fair number of St.LFD apparatus pieces that were long gone by the time Duane took his slides in 1976, I decided to also scan my 35mm black & white negatives from that 1965 trip of rigs Duane missed.
Using both Duane’s slides from 1976 and our black & white images from 1965 should allow me to post most all of the St. Louis FD fire apparatus purchased between 1939 and 1976. I’ll post Duane’s slide images for each year unless it is a rig that he didn’t get to shoot in 1976. I’m sorry, but much of the reserve apparatus that we shot in 1965 were all indoor shots. Without these indoor shots however, we would be missing some interesting rigs.
I’d like to thank firepixer Dennis Maag for his help with the StLFD company assignments and StLFD apparatus numbers. Dennis also helped figure out the info on some of the General and Central manufactured apparatus from the 30s and 40s. There will probably be some errors, some from typos (I do that a lot), and others where I read the wrong info and post it (done that many times before also). Please feel free to correct and errors you may see.
I’ll start posting the StLFD apparatus by year starting with 1939. I’d like to ask others wishing to post additional photos to wait until the year they fit in so that we will have a fairly chronological thread of StLFD apparartus.
St. Louis 1939 Chevrolet/Central 500 GPM pumper which was being used as a syphon rig in 1965. I was told by Dennis Magg that this rig came into the St. Louis FD when they took over fire protection at Lambert Field (now St. Louis International Airport). Dennis said they used this to pump out basements of fire buildings and buildings flooded during heavy storms or flooding conditions. Note all the suction hose loaded in the hose body.
-1965 Photo by Steve Skaar
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