VINTAGE FDNY RIG PHOTOS.

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ENG*28 1944 MACK L. PUMPER.... View attachment 53293

Notice no Chrome around the grill and front bumper, as compared to the 1940 model. Chrome had gone to war.

 

[Spanner]

ENG*236 1975 MACK CF PUMPER (RAPID WATER Equipped) View attachment 53272

Great picture!

 

[68jk09]

LAD*108 1956 AMERICAN LA FRANCE '85 AERIAL. (in service at 108 until 1963.)

 

[68jk09]

LAD*118 1936 FWD (FOUR WHEEL DRIIVE). '75 AERIAL.

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[68jk09]

LAD*121 1929 FWD '75 AERIAL BACK WHEN THEY WERE QUARTERED NEXT TO THE 100 PRECINT WITH ENGs 266 & 267 (Disbanded 11-25-72)..

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[68jk09]

LOWER PHOTO FROM JACK CALDERONE'S FAJ MAGAZINE...SQ*7 WHILE QUARTERED W/237 EARLY '60S BEFORE MOVING TO WATKINS ST AS ENG*232.

 

[captaindewey50267021@gm]

I remember the old Squad "Bread Wagons", the problem was when they arrived alone at fires they could do little until an Engine Co. arrived. Squad members made some great rescues without the protection of hoselines and also some great rescue with hoselines in place. In the late 1960s the Squads were given Pumpers, much later Rescue pumpers. I filled in a few times in Squad 3 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as a fireman, in the early 1970's. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.