52/52 in the Bronx.

68jk09 said:
^^^photos in reply # 17..18 & 19 sent to me by RET Dispatcher Herb Eysser.

reply # 19 shows the old Qtrs on the left & the newer/ present Qtrs on the right.
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Thank you very much "fdhistorian" (Iggy) for posting those pictures for us (myself and "68jk09").

As note - these "52/52" pictures were originally sent by Retired FDNY Dispatcher Herbie Eysser.
 
fdhistorian said:
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Ahrens Fox pumper, designed for use at the 1938 World's Fair, subsequently being used as a hose wagon in Riverdale. I believe there were just three of them and were rated at just 500gpm. They never really saw frontline service in the FDNY and we're gone from the inventory by the early '50s.
 
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Looks like a late 1920s 700 GPM American La France pumper with a 1930s Walters aerial ladder.

Replacement of the pumper was scheduled for circa 1940 but was delayed by world war II. The Walter's tractor was also delayed by the war, probably replaced by a 1948 Ward La France hitched to the Walters 65-ft trailer.
 
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This 1947 750 MPG Mack L model replaced the 1920s American La France right after the war. About 20 of them were purchased in one lot and scattered about the city. The showpiece was assigned to E23 in midtown Manhattan.
This was my favorite piece of apparatus as a kid until the Mack C. models came in in the late '50s.
All the frontline pumpers purchased by the FDNY from 1930 to 1945 (Mack, Seagraves, Walters, Ahren's Fox, Ward LaFrance) had been 1,000 GPM.
 
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