[quote name='feuerwehr75' post='212036' date='May 8 2008, 11:12 ']Kevin:
The E19/16 story is interesting, but in my research shows the apparatus was delivered without Company numbers. I heard it was the desire of the Department to have new rigs with both Rescue Squads, but funds were not available. So the DCFD repair shop on North Carolina Avenue added Compartments to the Hose Beds and re lettered the rigs for Rescue Squads 1 and 2. In the early 1950's 2 new Pirsch Rescues Squads were delivered and the two ALF's were re converted by the shop and sent as "twin" Wagon and Pumper to Engine 19. Rescue Squad 1's rig had been repaired following a MVA with an open cab. As far as the hill climbing ability, the Wagons had the same ALF V-12 as the Trucks and Truck 4's rig ran as Truck 16 starting in the 1950's when Truck 4 recieved a new rig. Some things never change, as the New Jesey Avenue companies are still treated "special". <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='^_^' />[/quote]
I have no idea what engines were in those DCFD ALFs but in the same time period, Boston bought three 85' spring-raised tractor drawn 700 Series ALF aerials and they had small Continental gas engines and could not climb hills. They were eventually retractored. Boston, New York and Chicago were still buying spring raised, wooden aerial ladders into the 1950s.
The E19/16 story is interesting, but in my research shows the apparatus was delivered without Company numbers. I heard it was the desire of the Department to have new rigs with both Rescue Squads, but funds were not available. So the DCFD repair shop on North Carolina Avenue added Compartments to the Hose Beds and re lettered the rigs for Rescue Squads 1 and 2. In the early 1950's 2 new Pirsch Rescues Squads were delivered and the two ALF's were re converted by the shop and sent as "twin" Wagon and Pumper to Engine 19. Rescue Squad 1's rig had been repaired following a MVA with an open cab. As far as the hill climbing ability, the Wagons had the same ALF V-12 as the Trucks and Truck 4's rig ran as Truck 16 starting in the 1950's when Truck 4 recieved a new rig. Some things never change, as the New Jesey Avenue companies are still treated "special". <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='^_^' />[/quote]
I have no idea what engines were in those DCFD ALFs but in the same time period, Boston bought three 85' spring-raised tractor drawn 700 Series ALF aerials and they had small Continental gas engines and could not climb hills. They were eventually retractored. Boston, New York and Chicago were still buying spring raised, wooden aerial ladders into the 1950s.
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