[quote name='Big Dave' date='06 October 2009 - 07:07 PM' timestamp='1254869277' post='341275']
It looks like a 1941 Code 33 (redesignated G15) crash tender which was the Royal Canadian Air Forces' most widely used airport crash vehicle of the Second World War. Built on a Ford chassis with Marmon-Herrington drive train, it carried 300 gallons of water and had a rotary gear pump of 350 gpm. Air aspirating play-pipe nozzles attached to 2x 100' hoselines gave the truck a faom-producing capability. It also had a 2 x 100 pound C02 extinguishing system with 2 high pressure hose reels. Information from: "Standing Against Fire" by Lt. Colonel (Rtd) Lorne MacLean.
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That's exactly what it is Dave. Gloucester, Ontario ran one that they acquired from the Air Force after the war, but it was long gone before I started work there.
It looks like a 1941 Code 33 (redesignated G15) crash tender which was the Royal Canadian Air Forces' most widely used airport crash vehicle of the Second World War. Built on a Ford chassis with Marmon-Herrington drive train, it carried 300 gallons of water and had a rotary gear pump of 350 gpm. Air aspirating play-pipe nozzles attached to 2x 100' hoselines gave the truck a faom-producing capability. It also had a 2 x 100 pound C02 extinguishing system with 2 high pressure hose reels. Information from: "Standing Against Fire" by Lt. Colonel (Rtd) Lorne MacLean.
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That's exactly what it is Dave. Gloucester, Ontario ran one that they acquired from the Air Force after the war, but it was long gone before I started work there.
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