VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

I recall at the time one of the members OTJ telling me this squirt was reassigned to E70 in an attempt to fool the public that there was still a ladder company in quarters. I believe the ladder was lashed to the squirt boom, or maybe that was just to E70s rig prior to the assignment of the squirt. In any case, a couple of dispatchers lived on City Island and nobody was fooled.
 
And note the bell mounted right behind the officer's seat.

My father's Engine 88 had one of these rigs until 1952. The first apparatus I was allowed to climb on when visiting the house. The siren, mounted on the front bumper, no longer worked so the bell and buckeye provided the warning when responding. Located in that position, the bell would literally leave anyone who sat up front tone deaf by the time they got to the box. Instead they ran a rope along the hose bed to the back step and rang it from there, leaving that front seat vacant.

Thanks for the memories, Chief jk.

Operationally, hose wagons like these were extremely useful. First equipped with "deck pipes" in the 1890s, so named because they were originally mounted on the decks of the fireboats of the day. The wagon would often execute a "flying stretch" from the steamer or later "gasoline powered pumping engines" to protect exposures or on heavy bodies of fire. Critical high volume hose streams in the days before tower ladders or even ladder pipes. (Water towers rarely ventured to the outer boroughs of the Bronx, Staten Island, or Queens.)
 
68jk09 said:
LAD*14 ....1984 ALF LTI ..... (same as LAD*163) .... i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HqoAAeSw8GNpifiU/s-l1600.jpg
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Somewhere on this site is a photo of a 1930s FWD truck. I identified it as the type assigned to LAD 14 when my father was a appointed there in 1934. I thought it would be interesting to post the photos together to show how far the apparatus technology had advanced in the 50 years between the two photos. Unfortunately I am too inept to locate that photo and post it again. Anybody wish to help?
 
3511 said:
Somewhere on this site is a photo of a 1930s FWD truck. I identified it as the type assigned to LAD 14 when my father was a appointed there in 1934. I thought it would be interesting to post the photos together to show how far the apparatus technology had advanced in the 50 years between the two photos. Unfortunately I am too inept to locate that photo and post it again. Anybody wish to help?
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Is this it?:

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