[quote name='jmp883' post='316362' date='Jun 23 2009, 15:30 ']Frank B posted this picture of a 1929 Buffalo owned by the Wanaque FD.
Richard_L_Dean wrote:
The Buffalo was replaced by either the 1967 Oren-Great Eastern quad that went to Co. #1 or the 1967 Oren-Great Eastern pumper that went to Co. #2. The question is which firehouse was the Buffalo assigned to. At the time the Buffalo's were in service until just after WWII there were 4 companies in the department. Companies 1, 2, & 3 were housed in what is currently the Co. #1 firehouse in the Midvale section of town while Co. #4 was housed in a long-gone building near the current Co. #2 firehouse in Haskell. There is a plaque in the Co. #1 firehouse that has the original builders plate off this rig, along with a color photograph of it, so I'm inclined to believe that the Oren-Great Eastern quad that went to Co. #1 replaced this Buffalo. Not long after WWII ended the department was restructured from 4 companies to 2. Companies 1, 2, & 3 were consolidated into Company #1 and Company #4 became Company #2. Company membership was determined by your residence location. If you were north of the Wanaque River bridge you were in Co. #1, south of the bridge and you were in Co. #2. It's still that way today.
By the way, I'm assuming that's a factory photo? I've never seen it before. The only other 2 known photos of this truck are the color shot we have and the b&w photo in the 1929 chapter of Walt McCall's American Fire Engines From 1900.
Frank B, thanks for posting it!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yourock.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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[color="#FF0000"]Yes, this is a factory photo from the collection of Bill Schwartz and Richard Adelman.[/color]
Richard_L_Dean wrote:
The Buffalo was replaced by either the 1967 Oren-Great Eastern quad that went to Co. #1 or the 1967 Oren-Great Eastern pumper that went to Co. #2. The question is which firehouse was the Buffalo assigned to. At the time the Buffalo's were in service until just after WWII there were 4 companies in the department. Companies 1, 2, & 3 were housed in what is currently the Co. #1 firehouse in the Midvale section of town while Co. #4 was housed in a long-gone building near the current Co. #2 firehouse in Haskell. There is a plaque in the Co. #1 firehouse that has the original builders plate off this rig, along with a color photograph of it, so I'm inclined to believe that the Oren-Great Eastern quad that went to Co. #1 replaced this Buffalo. Not long after WWII ended the department was restructured from 4 companies to 2. Companies 1, 2, & 3 were consolidated into Company #1 and Company #4 became Company #2. Company membership was determined by your residence location. If you were north of the Wanaque River bridge you were in Co. #1, south of the bridge and you were in Co. #2. It's still that way today.
By the way, I'm assuming that's a factory photo? I've never seen it before. The only other 2 known photos of this truck are the color shot we have and the b&w photo in the 1929 chapter of Walt McCall's American Fire Engines From 1900.
Frank B, thanks for posting it!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yourock.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />[/quote][color="#FF0000"]Yes, this is a factory photo from the collection of Bill Schwartz and Richard Adelman.[/color]
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