Great pictures I love the older rigs.
Dave
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Canadian Apparatus from the 1970's
Canadian Apparatus from the 1970's
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Canadian Apparatus from the 1970's
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Quebec City, Quebec
1962 Thibault 100 ft. This was Thibault's first custom rearmount on their AWIT chassis. They had built others using Marigus and Merryweather ladders in the 1950's on their earlier chassis. It was also the first custom rearmount aerial in North America where the entire vehicle was built by the same manufacturer. It was delivered with manual jacks which were replaced with hydraulic ones at some unknown date. Montreal got a similar one in 1965 - Ladder 405. There were only two rearmounts with this AWIT cab before Thibault switched to the Cincinnati cab.
I spent a lot of time in Vancouver, BC in the 1980's and photographed much of their apparatus. Here are a few. The aging fire boat J.H. Carlisle was retired in 1971 and not replaced as the False Creek area that justified is existence no longer had the high challenge lumber mills. In its place the VFD acquired four "Super Pumpers" from King Seagrave, which were assigned to the four stations surrounding False Creek, Stations 1, 2, 3 and 4. The units were built on Ford chassis with 350 H.P. diesel engines, 1,750 igpm single stage pumps, 300 GWT and Stang Intelli-giant guns with 2.5 and 3.5 inch tips. At the time these were the highest capacity pumps in Canada.
Pump 1 - 1971 King Seagrave-Ford - 1,750/300
Vancouver was one of the Canadian Fire Departments to acquire Calavar elevating platforms in the 1970's. VFD had two 125 ft. units purchased in 1973 and 1976.
Truck 7 - 1973 Calavar 125 ft.
In 1989 VFD acquired a 131 ft. Bronto 40-2T1 platform from Anderson on a Pacific PFC410 chassis. Pacific Truck and Trailer was a Vancouver based manufacturer of HEAVY DUTY highway and off road trucks primarily for the logging industry, Their last truck was delivered in 1991 before the factory closed.
In 1987 Pacific developed the PFC410 fire apparatus chassis. Between 1988 and 1991 they sold a total of 11. To the best of my knowledge the chassis was used on 7 Bronto Towers (Ottawa 3, Montreal 1, Vancouver 1, Rouyn-Noranda 1, Saipan 1), 3 pumps (Ottawa 2, North Vancouver 1) and one twin agent truck (Syncrude). All the apparatus were built by Anderson. Truck 2 - 1989 Anderson Pacific Bronto -/-/131 ft. 
Wow, Awesome shots Ian! Apparatus of those days were unique and had so much character.........thank you!
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