[quote name='unMARKedCARR' post='327033' date='Aug 4 2009, 22:09 ']I found this collector owned rig at a local eatery in Royal Palm Beach, FL. It's lettered for Perserverance, PA Vol Fire Dept/ and is a 1940 Seagrave 750 GPM 65' Ladder SN#A4370 Ex Souderton, PA, Ex Seminole FL Jr College, Ex FL State Fire College.
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Mark,
Interesting notes on this rig from Al powell's files.
Enjoy,
Bruce
1940 Seagrave, semi-cab conv., serial no. A4370, painted 4-2-40, one-piece flat windshield, delvd as quad-had equipt basket on top, 260/250, housed 8-24-40, $13,600, purchased through MD firm, 270 in.wheelbase, overall length 40 ft 7½ on., weighed nearly 8 tons, delvd as 750/100, in the 1950s taken to Seagrave factory for retrofit with 65 ft midmount steel aerial ladder to become quint, while enroute motor blew-replaced with new 6 cylinder motor and repainted, in 1973 sold to Panama Fire Equipt who resold to Seminole Co.(FL) Community College where used for training, in 1977 transferred to Florida State Fire College where used for training, on Nov. 16, 1981 after being kept outside and vandalized-purchased by Jim and Carol Briggs-Clermont,FL, in 1993 housed inside with plans to restore, in 1999 displayed at winter SPAAMFAA muster in Kissimmee by Briggs in restored condition-member FABB (Florida Antique Bucket Brigade), in 1-07 acquired through trade by Jim Vogel-member The Dalmingo Society-Tampa,FL-SPAAMFAA chapter, 250 ft ground ladders
Mark Carr photo[/quote]
Mark,
Interesting notes on this rig from Al powell's files.
Enjoy,
Bruce
1940 Seagrave, semi-cab conv., serial no. A4370, painted 4-2-40, one-piece flat windshield, delvd as quad-had equipt basket on top, 260/250, housed 8-24-40, $13,600, purchased through MD firm, 270 in.wheelbase, overall length 40 ft 7½ on., weighed nearly 8 tons, delvd as 750/100, in the 1950s taken to Seagrave factory for retrofit with 65 ft midmount steel aerial ladder to become quint, while enroute motor blew-replaced with new 6 cylinder motor and repainted, in 1973 sold to Panama Fire Equipt who resold to Seminole Co.(FL) Community College where used for training, in 1977 transferred to Florida State Fire College where used for training, on Nov. 16, 1981 after being kept outside and vandalized-purchased by Jim and Carol Briggs-Clermont,FL, in 1993 housed inside with plans to restore, in 1999 displayed at winter SPAAMFAA muster in Kissimmee by Briggs in restored condition-member FABB (Florida Antique Bucket Brigade), in 1-07 acquired through trade by Jim Vogel-member The Dalmingo Society-Tampa,FL-SPAAMFAA chapter, 250 ft ground ladders
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
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