Crown Firecoaches

[marco17]

F-17124

1974 Pumper

Sold To: LACoFD

Current: Retired - Part of the LACoFD Fire Museum

Photo Credit: Marc Johnson

[marco17]

One of the 74-77 group of LACoFD pumpers

Current: Bought by scrap company and presumed sold to collector or scrapped.

[J. Dexter]

[marco17]

[marco17]

I will have to continue this later due to my laptop experienced a catostrophic crash last night while posting photos. While I am waiting for Dell to fix it, hopefully a couple of you will be able to add a few photos from your collections. I'll leave you with one of the 74-77 set of LACoFD pumpers that happened to be in a folder I have at work.

[Guest]

[quote name='marco17' date='04 January 2010 - 03:18 PM' timestamp='1262635108' post='356328']

I will have to continue this later due to my laptop experienced a catostrophic crash last night while posting photos. While I am waiting for Dell to fix it, hopefully a couple of you will be able to add a few photos from your collections. I'll leave you with one of the 74-77 set of LACoFD pumpers that happened to be in a folder I have at work.

[/quote]

show me that 72 or 74 Ward behind the Crown...

[marco17]

[quote name='Fireman5230' date='04 January 2010 - 03:50 PM' timestamp='1262637040' post='356333']

show me that 72 or 74 Ward behind the Crown...

[/quote]



Not the same one, but a couple that this dealer had. They purchased a number of old Wards and Crowns at auction a couple years back... Enjoy....

[marco17]

....one more found at work...



F-1779

1977 Crown

Sold To: Los Altos, CA

Current: Available for sale David Cook Trucks, Florien, LA

[Guest]

LA County, Ca

1956 Crown

1250 Gpm

Steve Meiszala photo

[Guest]

[quote name='The Commish' date='04 January 2010 - 07:08 PM' timestamp='1262652498' post='356387']

LA County, Ca

1956 Crown

1250 Gpm

Steve Meiszala photo

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1955 Crown 1250/500, Crown #F-1046, LA Co #49008, originally assigned to Engine 82, then Engine 43 before becoming Reserve 507.

[marco17]

F-1843

50ft Telesqurt

Sold To: South Pasadena, CA

Current: Scrapped

Photo Credit: Dave Johnson

Note: Was donated to the Rio Hondo Fire Academy. Was originally white over dark red, but repainted at some point by the students to black over dark red. Once they finished using the truck, the cab was cut up for some use, presumably by another collector looking to fix a damaged wide body or some other application.

[marco17]

F-1459

1967

Sold To: Carson City, NV

Current: Rusting away at a used truck dealer in Florien, La

[marco17]

Unknown Crown at used truck dealer, Florien, LA

[marco17]

ex-LAFD pumper at used truck dealer, Florien, La

[marco17]

F-1679

1972 100ft Aerial Ladder

Sold To: Chula Vista, CA

Current: Used truck dealer in Florien, La

[marco17]

F-1797

1977 Pumper

Sold To: Carson City, NV

Current: Collector owned

Photo Credit: Chris Arnold/Devin Hull

[Aaronw]

Nice to see a Crown thread, its been awhile. I have a few I can add tonight, mostly built on Ford's though, not many fire coaches.



As far as longevity goes, several of the school districts around me Fresno, Madera and Mariposa still run school bus fleets almost exclusively made up of crowns. Since the buisness closed up in the late 80s all of these have to be a minimum of 20 years old.

[Aaronw]

I don't have a lot of info on most of these



Gustine FD (Central California)



I believe this is still owned by the Gustine FD



Photo by Aaron Woods

[Aaronw]

1966 Crown

Ex Felton FD (California)



Now privately owned



Photo by Aaron Woods

[Aaronw]

Ford / Crown snorkel



Avalon FD (Catalina Island, CA)



Now privately owned and used to promote a firefighter themed BBQ in Big Bear, CA



Photo by Aaron Woods