[quote name='Frank B' post='331640' date='Aug 24 2009, 00:22 ']Centerport PA 1927 ALF[/quote]
Interesting info on this one - from Al Powell's files:
1927 Larrabee/Amer LaFr Cosmopolitan, 500 gpm, serial no. B515E18295, Type 66 TRIP, shipped 6-29-27, sales order no.25165, rotary-gear pump, in 1956 purchased from Shoemakersville (Berks Co.),PA by Central Berks Lions Club for $200 and donated to co.to become first apparatus, in 3-57 equipped with 1000 ft hose-helmets-coats-boots for $2000, on 1-27-62 moved to newly built station on Callowhill St, 10-5-91 sold back to Shoemakersville, re-housed 8-15-92, refurbished by Weinrich's Auto Body-Dauberville,PA in 1992.
Bruce
Interesting info on this one - from Al Powell's files:
1927 Larrabee/Amer LaFr Cosmopolitan, 500 gpm, serial no. B515E18295, Type 66 TRIP, shipped 6-29-27, sales order no.25165, rotary-gear pump, in 1956 purchased from Shoemakersville (Berks Co.),PA by Central Berks Lions Club for $200 and donated to co.to become first apparatus, in 3-57 equipped with 1000 ft hose-helmets-coats-boots for $2000, on 1-27-62 moved to newly built station on Callowhill St, 10-5-91 sold back to Shoemakersville, re-housed 8-15-92, refurbished by Weinrich's Auto Body-Dauberville,PA in 1992.
Bruce
Bruce W. Anderson
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Southeastern PA Region
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Southeastern PA Region