VINTAGE FDNY WAR YEAR LIDS

[JohnnyGage]

Some FDNY frontpieces from back in the day...

 

[memory master]

I suppose that the old '233' front piece was from when it was a boat?

 

[JohnnyGage]

Did the job use the black frontpice for Marine Co's? When did the job color code the inserts for special units such as Marine, Squad, etc?

 

[JohnnyGage]

Check out the font on these frontpieces...

 

[JohnnyGage]

Another Bronx bend sighting!



Look, you no longer need to bake your lid at 350 degrees for ten minutes to get that salty Bronx bend Hollywood look, all you need to do is just order it!..."one Bronx bend helmet with a five year smoke stained frontpiece to go, please...."

 

[t123ken]

I suppose that the old '233' front piece was from when it was a boat?

I think that was Engine 223.
As far as I know it was always Brooklyn land Engine 33, 133, and 233.

 

[ladder197]

Factory ?installed? ?

 

[811]

Gage,
Inserts came about 1959, illustration from Oct 1959 WNYF.  Boats got green inserts, prior to that they were black, same as any other Engine Company,

 

[811]

Fireboat Engine Co. 87

 

[811]

From the archives...WNYF 1947

 

[fdhistorian]

I suppose that the old '233' front piece was from when it was a boat?

I think that was Engine 223.
As far as I know it was always Brooklyn land Engine 33, 133, and 233.

223 and 232 were boats

233 was/is a land engine

232 was both a marine and a land engine (at different times)

 

[JohnnyGage]

811 and fdhistorian, you gents are the best!...Good factual info, great insightful contributions... love it and thanks!

 

[811]

I suppose that the old '233' front piece was from when it was a boat?

I think that was Engine 223.
As far as I know it was always Brooklyn land Engine 33, 133, and 233.

223 and 232 were boats

233 was/is a land engine

232 was both a marine and a land engine (at different times)

Fireboat Engine 85 also became a land engine; and, like 232, in a Tin House

 

[fdhistorian]

I suppose that the old '233' front piece was from when it was a boat?

I think that was Engine 223.
As far as I know it was always Brooklyn land Engine 33, 133, and 233.

223 and 232 were boats

233 was/is a land engine

232 was both a marine and a land engine (at different times)

Fireboat Engine 85 also became a land engine; and, like 232, in a Tin House

Engine 43 and Engine 66 were the other two land engines that started out as fireboats

 

[JohnnyGage]

Some lids from the Great State of Texas;



From the Big "D";





Fort Worth;

 

[JohnnyGage]

Miami FD vintage lid:

 

[JohnnyGage]

Pretty cool unique frontpieces:

 

[JohnnyGage]

Here is a nice collection of DCFD frontpieces, years ago the fire dept was referred to FDDC:



And here is a nice lid collection:

 

[JohnnyGage]

Who needs these knuckleheads at a job?





And, if you're retired...why do you need a lid?

 

[JohnnyGage]

Couple of old timers...