Andrew Messer Photos

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[quote name='BA000049' date='11 November 2009 - 03:32 PM' timestamp='1257970363' post='347065']

Andrew,



From Al Powell's files:



1948 Seagrave, semi-cab conv., 750/250, ser.no.D7510, painted 11-30-48, model J, delvd 12-1-48, underwriters tested 12-3-48 in Perkiomen Creek near Water St, designed for rural service, $17,000, Chief Eugene Knause and Seagrave representative Wm.Backenstose drove in from Columbus,OH, on delv fire co.given 5 days to accept, photo in TOWN AND COUNTRY newspaper 12-17-48 front page, housed 6-18-49, in 1953 equipped with two-way radio, when Krause died in 1983 his body was carried in funeral on hosebed of this apparatus which he drove in from Columbus,OH 35 years earlier, in late 70s booster tank replaced with new 800 gal tank, in 1981 sold to Chuck Buschardt- Seagrave collector in Bellaire,TX, Seagrave V-12 motor.



Bruce

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Andrew,



Would you happen to know who ownes the Pennsburg rig now ?



Many thanks,



Bruce