VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

SQ*7 (& Disbanded ENG*215 on left). ..... Manhattan & India in the photo..... 215 was on India St ...new FH was built & lettered for 215 ...238...106 & BN*36 on Greenpoint Ave & McGuiness Blvd.....215 was disbanded before moving into the new FH.....SQ*7 was organized in with 212 until moving to 237 then later SQ*7 became 232 on Watkins St then moved to the BKLYN Tin House until disbanded there on Superbowl Sunday in 1988.

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^^^^ The original Covers were rounded.....later ones were more squared to make more room in the Hose Bed for FFs.
 
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PROBY SCHOOL RIG... 1936 FWD Tractor / 1953 Trailer w/'85 Aerial......had this Rig in proby school in 1968.

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That is a Ward la France tractor. These models (40 of them I believe) were world War II surplus vehicles that the FDNY purchased on the cheap after the war (1947, '48) to link up with very old aerials dating back to the 1920s and '30s.They were off frontline duty by the late 1960s with some of them still serving as spares or training rigs until the early 1970s. Workhorses.
 
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That is a Ward la France tractor. These models (40 of them I believe) were world War II surplus vehicles that the FDNY purchased on the cheap after the war (1947, '48) to link up with very old aerials dating back to the 1920s and '30s.They were off frontline duty by the late 1960s with some of them still serving as spares or training rigs until the early 1970s. Workhorses.
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Correct WLF Tractor....drove 2 in Chauf School in 1972..... those 2 were '47 WLF Tractors w/ '38 Seagrave Wooden Aerials.
 
Does anyone know the know the information about the "box alarm photograph" of the fire on the Lower East Side, I was a fireman in Tower Ladder 18 at that time, and I think I am in the photograph helping to repack the hosebed. Box number? Date? etc. Also that Is a American LaFrance tractor and the aerial is Metal NOT wood.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
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