[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1296421717' post='422827']The Baltimore, MD FD Shops had this IH wrecker. Might be the same one I posted earlier in orange.[/quote]
Yes this is the same rig. It was repainted orange in the mid to late 70s.
[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1296421905' post='422829']Baltimore, MD Engine # 59 was this neat Ward LaFrance pumper. Loaded for bear![/quote]
This rig originally was one of the high pressure hose companies that served the high value districts downtown. Only two were equipped with pumps. When the hose companies were disbanded in the mid 70s, two of the companies were organized into engine companies, #1 & # 59. (Engine 1 was always the rescue squad. When it was renamed as "Rescue 1" around 1970, Baltimore was without an "Engine 1" until the hose companies were disbanded.) Engine 59 operated as the satellite engine to the water tower.
And speaking of Lansdowne, PA here's the future Owings Mills "ladder tender" posing with her replacement. If one looks carefully you can see the back of Lansdowne, MD's rig between the two Seagraves in the foreground.
The "Rigs of the Unheralded Heroes" list it as a 1958 model. Gerty made some great rigs back in the day. Here is the MHU in it's white/red color scheme. Photo from my collection, original photographer unknown.
The "Rigs of the Unheralded Heroes" list it as a 1958 model. Gerty made some great rigs back in the day. Here is the MHU in it's white/red color scheme. Photo from my collection, original photographer unknown.
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I am sure it would make awesome reading to find the old MOP's (is that right for Baltimore FD?) governing the use of some of the older specialized units from back in their glory days. Does anybody have access to them and a scanner? I'd love to read/hear more about operating policies and procedures for such apparatus.