Keystone State Relics

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[quote name='psjboyz' date='29 April 2010 - 12:41 PM' timestamp='1272558083' post='378977']

These next ones from West Bradford are rare shots indeed. Credit to the photographer

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Sad ending to this. See below. Anybody know who built the body on this ?



Thanks,



Bruce



1942 International K-Series, full cab, 500/400. Purchased used in 1953 from the Bristol Volunteer Fire Company #6 - Bristol Borough (Bucks County) to become their first truck. Bristol had purchased it used in 1946 from the War Assets Corporation and installed a new pump in 1951. It was housed on 2/27/54. It was involved in a accident a couple of months later on 6/1/54 while responding to a call when it collided head-on with a firefighter responding to the station just outside of the village. It engine was demolished and the firefighter responding in his POV (Everett Carpenter Russell) lost his life, 5 firefighters on the engine were injured. The Fire chief was driving the engine.