[quote name='GA_Dave' date='15 March 2010 - 09:18 PM' timestamp='1268701112' post='370272']
Booster 3, Elkins Park, PA
Pierce Arrow
1250/750
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GA Dave,
From Al Powell's files.
Bruce
1985 Pierce Arrow, canopy cab, 1250/750, one of twins $154,251, Detroit diesel 6V92TA, Allison HT-740D trans, pre-piped deck gun mount, carried 1000 ft 4 in.supply line, housed 9-20-86, in 1993 red Scotchlite side stripe added, in 1996 offered for sale, on 8-23-97 seen stripped-heading west on PaTpk, in 1997 sold to Northeast Fire Apparatus-Lancaster who re-sold to Dover (Tuscawaras Co.),OH-TB color favored and retained-Rescue Eng.3-storage lockers installed in portion of hose bed and where ladder rack previously located-reduced hose load carried-purchased by Dover Twp.for City of Dover from which they contracted for fire protection-both purchased for $180,000 considered steal-reserve units-tampa beige liked by Dover-painted Dodge Ram utility that color and in 1999 purchased new Firovac pumper-tanker painted that color-in 2003 new quint purchased and tampa beige abandoned
Booster 3, Elkins Park, PA
Pierce Arrow
1250/750
[/quote]
GA Dave,
From Al Powell's files.
Bruce
1985 Pierce Arrow, canopy cab, 1250/750, one of twins $154,251, Detroit diesel 6V92TA, Allison HT-740D trans, pre-piped deck gun mount, carried 1000 ft 4 in.supply line, housed 9-20-86, in 1993 red Scotchlite side stripe added, in 1996 offered for sale, on 8-23-97 seen stripped-heading west on PaTpk, in 1997 sold to Northeast Fire Apparatus-Lancaster who re-sold to Dover (Tuscawaras Co.),OH-TB color favored and retained-Rescue Eng.3-storage lockers installed in portion of hose bed and where ladder rack previously located-reduced hose load carried-purchased by Dover Twp.for City of Dover from which they contracted for fire protection-both purchased for $180,000 considered steal-reserve units-tampa beige liked by Dover-painted Dodge Ram utility that color and in 1999 purchased new Firovac pumper-tanker painted that color-in 2003 new quint purchased and tampa beige abandoned
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region