VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

^^^^^^^^^^ Chief Jack....in 1968, Fireman Bob ( Cuckoo) Canberg (L120) placed the "HORNS" atop the rig for the first time. Hence the name "SUPER TRUCK". From the years 1968-1974 , L120 responded to over 50,000 alarms. Though,the set of horns have been replaceed many times. The horns adorement still ride high and proud! THE TRADION CONTINUES ,,,
 
I think that you got the story right but the unit wrong, in the "Super Truck" department. I think "Super Truck was the also very busy L-108. My friend Steve Ternland, AKA "White Fish" later an officer in E-248 and a Batt. Chief in Battalion 41, was appointed to L-108.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
^^^^^^^^^^Hello Capt... With all due respect, I have to disagree with you on your above post. I know the story is right and I know the unit Is right. I agree that " one hundred and eight" truck was a very busy truck. but L-120 was called the super truck. I had the honor of spending 10 years in ladder 120., a company steeped in history. So when someone tells me I was wrong on that history, my company pride kicks in. Now in a recent post. you referenced L-120 having a second section....That is wrong. As a matter of fact TA176 corrected you in his post. So as I see it, your 0 for 2! !!!
God willing, I will see you in May at Middletown for my WTC check-up. And i will bring you my L120 centennial book 2005 so you can brush up on the history! and i will bring the box of doughnuts... LOL....One last thing in one of your posts you said you BUFFED watkins street maybe it was sheffield ave...LOL Just a fireman Jano FDNY engine 217 ladder 120 Rescue 4 retired.
 
Sorry brother you are right I checked TL-120 had only one section art any time. I know POSA, and it too was a great house. I based my comment on L-108 being "Super Truck "on an incident I had back in the Mid 1970's. I was working a Detail to Satellite 1, at that time located in what is now the FDNY Museum on Spring St. At that time the Satellites ran with just 2 firefighters & no officer. We responded to 3 or 4th Alarm in Williamsburg. When we took up, we took in a nearby 10-75 and arrived with only one relocated Engine and us. A young girl was hanging out a 3rd floor window with heavy black smoke pulsing out of the window above her. One member of the Engine took a scaling ladder off the Engine Co. rig, and we started up to the trapped girl. As the scaling ladder reached the 2nd floor. L-108 came around the corner and quickly raised their aerial ladder and grabbed the trapped girl. No scaling ladder rescue for anyone, but L-108 made sure we knew they were "Super Truck". All this happened over 50 years ago, I hope I got this right. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
68jk09 said:
ENG*46 1960's WARD LA FRANCE FIREBRAND ( on Welfare Island )... View attachment 55981
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This model was nicknamed by the members at the time "The Pagoda".
I recently watched a special on YouTube about Ward La France apparatus. The video emphasized how they were specialized vehicles of much higher quality than the American La France manufactured in the same town of Elmira, New York. That was not my impression as a kid growing up. The Wards were supposedly lightweights by comparison. Yet, those old CD rigs lasted to the 1970s performing yeomans work for the FDNY.
Anybody have any other ideas on the Ward of France product?
 
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