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[quote name='Andrew2340' post='329068' date='Aug 11 2009, 23:12 ']Apparently this one is another prototype for Sutphen which was "never meant to be sold." Only two of them were ever made, and both of them were apparently sold somehow to the Norwich Twp FD of Hilliard, Ohio. Belmont bought this one used a few years ago and the Sutphen Corporation bought the other one back from Norwich Twp. Instead of levers on the pump panel, it was all switches which operate air-actuated valves on the discharges and the pump. This is all info from the guys at the FD that pulled the rigs out for us.



Belmont, SC "Engine 4"



1985 Sutphen Deluge

1500/750

S/N # HS-1887

X: Norwich Twp FD of Hilliard, OH



Andrew Messer Photo (2009)



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As the towers plant is located in Hilliard and the main plant is in the next township north, Norwich has always been a good Sutphen sounding board. I was there the other day and they had just picked up their latest - a pumper disguised as a heavy rescue.